The new law gives ’72 genders’ their own legal status. Sinn Féin’s Deputy, Matt Carthy, gets the Irish common sense award for noting that “the Bill defines gender as including transgender, and a ‘gender other than male or female,'” and pointing out, “Minister, most people do not understand what that means precisely.”
(TEC News/The European Conservative) — The Criminal Justice (Hate Offences) Act was signed into law by Irish President Michael D. Higgins on October 29. This follows the Irish parliament, the Dáil, passing the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill by a majority of 78 to 52 votes.
Among five bills rushed through the Dáil in under six hours on the evening of October 23—a process that normally takes several weeks—the contentious legislation defines gender as
the gender of a person or the gender which a person expresses as the person’s preferred gender or with which the person identifies and includes transgender and a gender other than those of male and female.
As the bill was debated in the Seanad (Senate/upper house), populist senator Sharon Keogan read out the 72 genders which have now gained legal standing, needing 25 minutes to complete the jargon-heavy list.
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