Transsexual wins right to be recognised as a woman
Landmark decision after 13-year fight
By Louise Hogan
Tuesday June 22 2010
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/transsexual-wins-right-to-be-recognised-as-a-woman-2229549.htmlIRELAND'S transgender community can now come out into the open to fight for their rights, campaigners said last night after the Government accepted defeat in a landmark legal battle.
Transsexual Lydia Foy spoke of her hope that young transgender people would benefit after she won her 13-year legal quest to be officially recognised as a woman.
The Government has formally withdrawn its Supreme Court appeal in the historic transgender court case lodged by the qualified dentist in her bid to be described as female on her birth certificate.
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State drops transgender challenge
JAMIE SMYTH Social Affairs Correspondent
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0621/breaking69.htmlThe Government has withdrawn its appeal against a landmark ruling by the High Court that Irish law on transgender rights is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The decision brings to an end a 13-year legal battle against the State by Dr Lydia Foy, a former dentist who was registered as male at birth and fought for legal recognition to live as a woman.
It also paves the way for the Government to propose new legislation giving transsexuals the right to obtain birth certificates showing their acquired sex and the entitlement to marry in that gender.
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Irish trans woman wins battle to be recognised as female
By Staff Writer,
PinkNews.co.uk • June 21, 2010 - 15:52
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/06/21/irish-trans-woman-wins-battle-to-be-recognised-as-female/Ireland is to introduce new legislation to recognise trans people's new identities after the government scrapped an appeal to the Supreme Court.
The case was brought by Lydia Foy, a trans woman who battled for 13 years to be legally recognised as female on her birth certificate.
Dr Foy, a former dentist from Co Kildare, transitioned in the early 1990s. She was able to obtain a new driving licence, passport and polling card in her new name and gender but was barred from being able to amend her birth certificate.
