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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2016 1:22:31 GMT 8
Here's a little press release from TENI (Transgender Equality Network Ireland) that reports on the state of things after the passage of the Gender Recognition Act last year and a statement of what still remains to be done: www.teni.ie/news-post.aspx?contentid=1514113 of us have been registered over the six months since the act came into force. That may not seem like very many out of a population of 5 million or so, but some people who could otherwise be registered have been arbitrarily excluded. And anyway, we're just getting started. There'll be lots more of us.
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Mar 12, 2016 1:53:07 GMT 8
Post by Shan on Mar 12, 2016 1:53:07 GMT 8
I normally don't respond well to any government registration programs, but this seems really rather well intentioned and quite positive. Perhaps there will be others who will put aside their "Big Brother" fears and step up to be registered as well.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2016 2:06:49 GMT 8
Perhaps I didn't say enough here, Shan. This new legislation is fantastic. It's not just a matter of registering. Basically, what you're doing is declaring your gender, and then you're legally recognized as that gender. I'm now legally recognized as female, which means I can live as I bloody well please, and nobody has the right to question my life or to discriminate against me on that basis. This isn't to say that some people won't do it, but they don't have the legal right to.
Basically, Shan, it's called "freedom". I remember the day when I submitted my application form. I was in contact with a couple of my T-girlfriends and we all agreed on something: you could submit your application by post, but that wasn't good enough for us. It didn't seem real enough. So since the town where the office was located was handy for all of us, we met up there and went in to submit our applications in person. We got to talk to the lady in charge. She looked over our applications to make sure she had everything she needed, and was basically super-nice about it.
Then we went to a restaurant and a pub for a bit of celebration--except that it was a bit odd. You'd think we'd be ecstatic. We weren't. We were quite subdued, and on talking it over a bit, we realized that we were a bit disoriented. After many, many years of being legally nothing, and socially the butt of every joke anybody could come up with, all of a sudden we were legally recognized as full-fledged citizens and above all, we were free. It's an odd feeling, freedom, when you've lived without it for so long. At the time, we didn't know how to react.
As this press release points out, this legislation is far from perfect. It gives no recognition to NB people or the under-16's. So there's still work to do there. But this is a very, very positive first step. Hopefully it will spread to lots of other countries very soon.
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Mar 12, 2016 6:49:15 GMT 8
Post by Shan on Mar 12, 2016 6:49:15 GMT 8
I'm really pleased for you hon, we need to be able to do that here too and give up the old wild west cowboys and Indian mentality about trans women and move into the 21st century.
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