News & Events
You are here: Home » News & Events
15 NOV 2014
Labour Youth Motion on Gender Recognition
At the 2014 Labour Youth Conference, a motion was passed calling for Ireland's gender recognition legislation to be based on the declaration model, as seen in Argentina. This would require applicants seeking to change their legally-recognised gender only to declare their identified gender, making it a matter of personal autonomy rather than a medical decision.
Motion on Legal Gender Recognition
Conference applauds the introduction of gender recognition legislation in Argentina based on the ‘declaration model’, which allows citizens to change their legal gender through an application process that requires only a solemn declaration of the person’s intent to live in their identified gender.
Conference notes that our EU neighbour Denmark also introduced legislation in September of this year, based on the Argentina model.
Conference believes this type of legislation is fully respectful of human rights, in a way that legislation requiring medical or psychiatric diagnoses of ill health can never be.
Conference notes the statement by Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton TD that the long-awaited Irish gender recognition legislation will be introduced before the end of the year.
Conference regrets that the Gender Recognition Advisory Group (GRAG), set up by the Fianna Fáil-led government in 2010, was provided with inadequate terms of reference.
Conference further regrets that the GRAG based its recommendations on the UK Gender Recognition Act, despite the legitimate concerns that the trans* community has with that law and the incompatibilities between that law and existing Irish legislation, e.g. divorce law.
Conference calls for the Gender Recognition Bill 2014 to be based on Argentina’s gender recognition law, with all of the rights and protocols assumed in that law.
Shortcut http://www.teni.ie/labour_youth_motion_on_gender_recognition