Due donne sposate in Irlanda contestano il rifiuto del passaporto da parte del governo per la loro figlia
https://www.thejournal.ie/two-women-who-married-in-ireland-challenge-governments-refusal-of-passport-for-their-daughter-6979820-Mar2026/
di SpottedAlpaca
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Good luck to them. It’s been over ten years since the Marriage Equality referendum. I get that it’s complex but the government’s dragging of their feet when it comes to giving equal family rights to same sex parents is criminal.
The headline omits the important detail that one of the women is Irish, which is far more relevant than the fact that they got married in Ireland. Their daughter should be granted a passport due to her Irish mother but the state refuses to recognise their relationship.
Damn, can imagine this is a legal mess to untangle.
Ugh. This is a difficult one and I recall there was a lot of debate and discussion around this when they were overhauling laws around IVF and surrogacy and the like.
I’m not sure how far this one will go. From the perspective of the Irish state, the child is no different to a child born to a father who is not married to the mother.
The child doesn’t automatically become an Irish citizen because its mother’s spouse is Irish.
The article and the comments here seem to think this is an issue around equal rights for same sex couples but I’m not convinced that is the case. The issue here is that the woman giving birth is not an Irish citizen, and the child was conceived through IVF in the UK. If we imagine a heterosexual couple where the man is infertile and the woman is not an Irish citizen and the couple decides to conceive using IVF in the UK, would that child have rights that are any different to this same sex couple? If not, then it’s the laws around granting citizenship to babies conceived through IVF that need to change, for both same sex and heterosexual couples.
They did the same with my son- although they granted him a passport then revoked it as I was not the woman who birthed him. Broke my heart.
Always good to hear that the government is wasting their time, and our money, making someones life more of a hassle for no good reason. Just give her the passport ffs it’s not complicated.
Basically, the law is, if you don’t have a functioning uterus or testes, you can’t pass citizenship onto any children. It matters not whether you’re homosexual, heterosexual or whatever.
People’s willingness here to excuse the state’s antiquated and inequitable take on both IVF and same sex couples is astounding.
The child has nothing to do with Ireland , no blood , no genes , no residency …. It’s an attempt to game the system . No passport is very appropriate
This has arisen before with heterosexual couples , Irish mother needs to legally adopt child , which is what an Irish father would need to do too ..,
Personally I would be going to New Zealand, fuck living in Ireland 😅
Why are my taxes being wasted on such a non issue? Give the passport.
Or they could just give a donation to Bertie.
If the child gets really good playing soccer they’ll throw passports at her.
Nice ragebait headling and article, hope you make people angry at 11am on a WSednesday
They are married her relationship with the child is not recognised by the state and this is wrong.
>it is submitted, the Irish respondents determined that “the applicant is not a ‘mother’, ‘father’ or ‘parent’ under the 1956 Act, “despite the applicant being named on the birth certificate as a ‘legal parent’ to the child”.
You mean the lads back in 1956 didn’t foresee this??
Someone get me some pearls to clutch!
The child is biologically the daughter of one parent (her egg), but was carried by her wife. Only the mother who gave birth is considered her parent. It’s absolutely ridiculous and has been going on years.