Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----as the same gender as the person he or she married. There is also a warped idea that a person in a marriage or civil partnership could not possibly want to stay with a person who has had another preferred gender legally recognised. It is crazy stuff.

Transgender people who are married or have families are entitled to the same protection-----

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