“IT’S a wonderful day. We’re making progress,” Dr Lydia Foy declared after Social Protection Minister Joan Burton announced that the Government would introduce gender recognition legislation as soon as possible.

Transgender persons are still being denied legal recognition of their true identity, writes Tanya Ní Mhuirthile

THE Department of Social Protection is facing a growing number of legal challenges from families denied child benefit because of the habitual residence condition.

TRANSGENDER people are to be allowed have their birth certificates altered to recognise their true gender after the Government finally accepted the law breaches their human rights.