Some in Fianna Fáil think that those who wish to have their gender legally recognised as the gender they acquire do so for financial gain or to fiddle welfare systems.

This is news to me! I don’t get how someone who changes their gender is better off financially (particularly as women still only earn 4/5ths of the income earned by men.) I don’t see how there can be better welfare entitlements based on gender either unless it’s to be recognised as an opposite sex couple?

Also who would put themselves through acquiring a new gender to do so?

In a report on the governments intentions to introduce legislation next year on the matter as per the Programme for Government, it was stated that

‘Fianna Fáil were concerned that people would seek to change their gender for reasons other than psychological or medical, such as welfare or other entitlements.’