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Column: Why is the government delaying a law to recognise transgender people?
Ireland is in clear defiance of a High Court judgment that said the law on transgender people has to change, writes Michael Farrell.
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ON 14 JULY last year Social Protection Minister Joan Burton launched a report on legally recognising transgender persons. The Minister said gender recognition legislation would be given high priority. A year later the Government has not produced even the heads of a Bill on this issue.
Ireland is now in clear defiance of a High Court judgment that said the law on transgender persons was in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. And this country is now one of only a tiny handful of European states that still do not recognise transgender people.