Transgender conference opens

IrishTimes.com – Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Ireland remains one of only two countries in Europe that fails to afford any legal recognition or rights to transgender people, a conference in Dublin heard today.

Professor Stephen Whittle from Manchester Metropolitan University said transsexual and transgender people in Ireland faced an inadequate legal framework in which to exist.

He was speaking at the Transgender Human Rights Conference and Educational Seminar at the Law Society of Ireland in Dublin.