
Social Protection minister Joan Burton is drafting legislation to address a legal problem where transgender people can only enter a civil partnership if their new gender was recognised abroad.
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Transgender woman becomes first to enter Irish same-sex partnership
The loophole arose after it emerged that a transgender woman was able to enter into a civil partnership with her partner under the Civil Partnership Act introduced in 2010, even though the State currently has no mechanism to formally acknowledge the acquired gender of a transgender person.
The woman’s gender was officially recognised by the Civil Registration Service because their gender had been acquired in another state, The Journal reports.