Bill seeks to bring legal rights to intersex and non-binary people - Ireland

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Parents will no longer be "forced to immediately choose between male and female" on their child's birth certificate if a child is born with intersex characteristics, under a bill proposed in the Dáil.

People Before Profit-Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger has introduced a bill to bring legal rights and recognition to non-binary and intersex people here.

The bill would introduce the option of an X marker on the Gender Recognition Certificate, in addition to M (male) and F (female).

The Dublin West TD says up to 10% of people are LGBTQI in surveys, and at least a third of these people identify as non-binary.

She said globally around 2% of the population defines themselves this way.

https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2026/0924/1592877-intersex-bill/

Not sure how many on FWR are from or living in the Republic of Ireland, and no doubt they are aware of this.

But thought I would post because of threads of similar discussion in NI, Wales and Scotland.

This is a slightly different perspective https://www.christian.org.uk/news/bill-seeks-to-bake-third-gender-into-irish-law/

So they are totally conflating sex/gender/intersex?

Thanks for posting this. I hadn't heard of it. I guess I can understand a 3rd option on a form at birth for intersex, but I still don't get what the rights for non binary is about. That's entirely a choice and nothing biological surely? I don't really follow these issues but would like to be a bit more educated.

Does this nitwit not understand that there is no such thing as 'intersex', only Differences in Sexual Development. Nobody is born partway between female and male. There are no sperva or overm. If a child is born with ambiguous genitalia, they will swiftly have genetic testing to identify their sex. So the idea that an 'intersex' child is neither female nor male and must have that established in their documentation is absolute nonsense. And very unkind nonsense, too, as it locks the child into falsehood.

As for non-binary. My eyes cannot roll far enough. But this is Ireland, where men can be women and it is worse to tell the truth than to degrade half the population.

Must admit I found the article confusing which is why I included the longer on from the Christian Institute.

Have found this link which has 2 pdf files to download giving more detail https://rule.ie/bills/non-binary-and-intersex-recognition-bill-2026

There’s a global lobby trying to bring these laws in to every jurisdiction.

Government opposes bill on non-binary recognition, saying changes go too far
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1021/1596268-government-opposes-non-binary-bill/

But who knows next year? Quote:

Minister Calleary said it was not a question of whether the concerns raised by the bill deserve consideration, but rather whether the bill dealt with them in a measured, workable and considered way.

He said the bill is not "very, very basic" as Deputy Coppinger claimed, but rather "makes very significant changes" not just to the Gender Recognition Act 2015, but also to the Civil Registration Act 2004, the Employment Equality Act 1998, the Equal Status Act 2000 and the Interpretation Act, 2005.

He said for that reason, the Government could not accept the bill as it is currently drafted.

Parents will no longer be "forced to immediately choose between male and female"

I don't know the position in Ireland but in the UK I don't think anyone is forced immediately to choose - you have six weeks (three in Scotland) and in any event, it's not the parent's choice as to whether to put male or female: the registrant must provide the information "to the best of that person's knowledge and belief".

Has anyone actually made a universal definition of what non-binary means yet? I'm assuming they will have to do one if they intend on giving them rights.

Exactly. At the moment non binary seems to be anything anyone wants it to be, and if claimed can then be used to create a fuss and more importantly make sure the whole world know that they are having their rights taken away because of uppity WOMEN claiming only biological women can have the identity "woman".