And so you see, dear readers, he was a she and time should have been reversed and he should have been she from the start and as for the two children she fathered as a he, well, life's a bitch, ain't it?
Dr. Lydia, originally Donal, Foy has won his/her/its case at the High Court. Mr. Justice Liam McKechnie has agreed that the European Convention on Human Rights says she/he/it is correct and the laws of Ireland are all wrong. So now, the Republic must find a way to backtrack, to reverse time, and correct the doctor's birth certificate.
Dr. Foy must surely grant that he/she/it was male at one time, for example, at birth. The obstetrician didn't get it wrong, nor did the registrar. And Dr. Foy must agree that he/she/it was male when his/her/its marriage was celebrated. The wife didn't get it wrong when they were courting and she certainly didn't get it wrong she turned up pregnant. Dr. Foy was, at that time, a man of the masculine persuasion with fully functioning sperm cells that swam mightily and contributed half the DNA of two children. Takes a man to do that, no matter what the European Convention might like to legislate.
Then Donal decided to become Lydia, and so he/she/it entered a legal swamp. Lost all human dignity after that sex reassignment surgery, what with the big 'M' on the birth certificate and the girly cosmetics on the manly face. People would be thinking Dr. Foy was a transvestite or some other sort of perverted creep, when in reality the doctor was anatomically female. It's the damned 'Y' chromosome and the error-ridden birth certificate causing all the trouble. Can't get rid of the genetic material, but that piece of paper can be altered.
Very soon, Bertie Ahern will have to go to the Dail and tell them that they have to craft new laws so that Lydia Foy can have her birth certificate altered to reflect her altered state. That will then lead to even more legislation that will protect the rights of his/her/its two children, because the way the laws stand now, they'd lose a great deal if they never had a da. And if Dr. Foy is declared a girl, the children are made bastards and Mrs. Foy has some frightening legal problems.
Ireland will be forced to change its birth registration process so that it is in keeping with European Convention conventions, and Mr. Justice McKechnie has suggested that they take a page from British law, which was also recently changed on the heels of a court case. That would take care of Dr. Foy's distress, but the family will then be left in legal limbo and a solution to that problem will take months of debate.
At last, Dr. Foy can be spared the indignity that is visited upon the sex changed. So be warned, ladies, if you run across someone you'd swear is a transvestite in the toilets, don't go running to the gardai to have the pervert arrested. It just might be Dr. Foy. You wouldn't want to infringe on her/his/its human dignity, now, would you?
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