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. Yesterday, 7:00 AM | Retrieved from the Internet on August 1, 2012 by SJ
http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-why-is-the-government-delaying-a-law-to-recognise-transgender-people-533483-Jul2012/ 🔗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.
