Ireland urgently needs to implement an informed consent model delivered in primary care, developed in co-production with the trans community. It’s high time that we respect trans people’s bodily autonomy and self-determination. The HSE and DOH must take action to make this happen. (3/3)

Trans people who are self-medicating need access to blood tests and hormone monitoring to keep themselves safe, without intervention. All trans people need to be given the choice to access gender-affirming hormone therapy from their primary care providers. (2/3)

While trans people in Ireland remain protected under the Employment Equality, Equal Status, and Gender Recognition Acts, know that we will fight to keep it that way. We will resist the anti-trans agenda taking root in our legal system. And we will continue to advocate for trans liberation — always.

Make no mistake: laws like this can never erase trans people or the power we hold. We have always existed. We will continue to exist — even if our lives, our bodies, and our realities threaten the gendered system of power all too many seek to uphold.

The basis for this decision is unfounded. It will harm not just trans women, but all women. Shrinking the boundaries of who is considered a woman puts every woman at risk. Protecting trans women is protecting all women. Our struggle, and our freedom, is shared.

This ruling enables the exclusion of trans women from 'single-sex' spaces, further eroding their already-precarious safety and access. Trans women, who face pervasive systemic violence and marginalisation, are being pushed further out of public life. But trans women belong — everywhere.

Sex and gender are constructs shaped and enforced by the system of cisheteropatriarchy. This system punishes those who live outside its boundaries. That punishment is often disguised as 'protection' — and trans women are bearing the brunt. In no uncertain terms, trans women are women.

It is crucial that the commencement of this vital legislation is accompanied by comprehensive training for those working in the criminal justice system, along with robust and consistent enforcement.

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