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Lydia Annice Foy is an Irish trans woman notable for leading legal challenges regarding gender recognition in Ireland. In 1992 Foy had sex reassignment surgery, and began a 20-year battle to have her birth certificate reflect her gender identity. In 2007 the Irish High Court ruled that the relevant portions of the law of the Republic of Ireland were incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, but by February 2013 the law had not been changed and she began new legal proceedings to enforce the 2007 decision. ==Early life and marriage== Foy is a retired dentist from Athy, County Kildare. Born in a private nursing home in the Irish Midlands,〔〔 〕 and at birth officially registered as a male with the first names ''Donal Mark''.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Foy -v- An t-Ard Chláraitheoir & Ors ) 〕 Foy was raised as a male,〔 〕 with five brothers and one sister.〔 From early childhood Foy was conscious of a feeling of ‘femininity’. This continued throughout boarding school at Clongowes Wood College from 1960 to 1965. Having obtained the Leaving Certificate, Foy started pre-med studies at University College Dublin, but changed to dentistry a year later. Foy graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Dental Surgery in 1971, and began to practice as a dentist.〔 In 1975, when living in Athlone, Foy met Anne Naughton through a music society. Naughton was a secretary from Clara, County Offaly, who was eight years younger.〔 They got engaged, and married at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Horseleap〔 on 28 September 1977.〔 They had two children, one born in 1978, and the other in 1980.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lydia Foy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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