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Ireland passes law allowing trans people to choose their legal gender
Source: Reuters
Ireland passes law allowing trans people to choose their legal gender
Reuters
Thursday 16 July 2015 12.58 BST
Transgender people in Ireland have won legal recognition of their status after a law was passed allowing them to change their legal gender with no medical or state intervention.
The majority of countries in Europe require transgender people to undergo surgery and sterilisation, or be diagnosed with a mental disorder and get divorced if they are married, in order to have their desired gender legally recognised.
The gender recognition bill, passed late on Wednesday and set to be signed into law by the end of July, makes Ireland only the third European nation, after Denmark and Malta, to allow transgender people aged over 18 to change their legal gender without intervention.
The bill was passed months after the people of Ireland backed same-sex marriage by a landslide in a referendum that marked a dramatic social shift in a country which decriminalised homosexuality just two decades ago.
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Reuters
Thursday 16 July 2015 12.58 BST
Transgender people in Ireland have won legal recognition of their status after a law was passed allowing them to change their legal gender with no medical or state intervention.
The majority of countries in Europe require transgender people to undergo surgery and sterilisation, or be diagnosed with a mental disorder and get divorced if they are married, in order to have their desired gender legally recognised.
The gender recognition bill, passed late on Wednesday and set to be signed into law by the end of July, makes Ireland only the third European nation, after Denmark and Malta, to allow transgender people aged over 18 to change their legal gender without intervention.
The bill was passed months after the people of Ireland backed same-sex marriage by a landslide in a referendum that marked a dramatic social shift in a country which decriminalised homosexuality just two decades ago.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/16/ireland-transgender-law-gender-recognition-bill-passed
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