'LGBT - A Silent T?' : 18th June 2008

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Please join us in celebrating Dublin PRIDE 2008 and its 25th anniversary! UCD's Women's Education Research and Resource Centre (WERRC) is joining with Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) to host a Pride Forum on transgender inclusion in Ireland's wider LGBT community.

'LGBT - A Silent T?' :

WERRC Pride Forum in conjunction with TENI,

Temple Bar Hotel, Fleet Street, Dublin 2- (wheelchair accessible)

Wednesday, 18th June 2008

7-9pm

Free of charge

A panel forum followed by a community round table discussion on transgender inclusion in LGBT politics, activism and spaces.

Participants include representatives from TENI, Outhouse, LGBT Noise, BeLonG To, Dublin Pride, Garda LGBT Liaison Officer, Labour LGBT, the USI LGBT Rights Officer and Dublin's transgender community.

For more information, contact the forum organiser:

Leslie Sherlock WERRC

Tel : (01)7168567 Fax : (01)7161195

Email : leslie.sherlock@ucd.ie

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The Foy Case: Ruling issued by Courts

Evening Echo:
Landmark ruling in transgender privacy case

19/10/2007 - 3:57:34 PM

In a landmark ruling Judge Liam McKechnie has found that Dr Lydia Foy, a transgendered person, has had her privacy breached by the lack of legislation allowing her to change her identity on her birth certificate.

Judge McKechnie pointed to legislation provisions in other EU countries that allow for a change of identity on official documents and that the lack of such provisions in Ireland was counter to Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights.

Judge McKechnie also ruled that an order stating that Dr Foy's privacy has been breached must be placed before the Houses of the Oireachtas within 21 days of the wording of that statement being finalised.

It is anticipated that this will lead to debate and possible legislation change concerning the privacy of transgendered people.

Source: http://www.eveningecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=234970214&p=z3497x9zx&n=234970974


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Breakingnews.ie:
Landmark ruling in transgender privacy case:

In a landmark ruling Judge Liam McKechnie has found that Dr Lydia Foy, a transgendered person, has had her privacy breached by the lack of legislation allowing her to change her identity on her birth certificate.

Judge McKechnie pointed to legislation provisions in other EU countries that allow for a change of identity on official documents and that the lack of such provisions in Ireland was counter to Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights.

Judge McKechnie also ruled that an order stating that Dr Foy's privacy has been breached must be placed before the Houses of the Oireachtas within 21 days of the wording of that statement being finalised.

It is anticipated that this will lead to debate and possible legislation change concerning the privacy of transgendered people.

Source: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhmhcwidkfsn/