Original sentence: 15px|Yes (right to change gender won in Irish High Court, May 2008).In 2006, at the opening of the new headquarters of the gay rights organisation GLEN in Dublin, the then-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said;.May 2008, the Irish High Court finally ended a transgender woman's 10-year legal struggle for state recognition, by ruling that the government had to grant her identity papers corresponding to the gender she lived in.Right to legal gender change won in Irish High Court, May 2008.The "Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Law in Relation to Issues of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity," which spell out international legal standards for protecting against violence and discrimination, state that: "Each person's self-defined sexual orientation and gender identity is integral to their personality and is one of the most basic aspects of self-determination, dignity and freedom.The decision marked the first time that the High Court had ever found an Irish law incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.There are no elected extreme left or extreme right parties in the Republic as most Irish people are moderates, in fact there is a universal distain of all kinds of extremism, as most people associate extremism with racism.This was widely welcomed by the Irish gay community, as it is an extremely positive statement coming from the leader of the country's most conservative party, which had less than 20 years earlier actively ignored the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights in Norris vs
Edited sentence: 15px|Yes.In 2006, at the opening of the new headquarters of the gay rights organisation GLEN in Dublin, the then-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.There are no elected extreme left or extreme right parties in the Republic as most Irish people are moderates.This was widely welcomed by the Irish gay community, as it is an extremely positive statement coming from the leader of the countries most conservative party, which had less than 20 years earlier actively ignored the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights in Norris vs