In 2019 Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, published a report it had prepared pro bono for IGLYO, a European network of youth LGBT organisations. Entitled ‘Only Adults? Good Practices in Legal Gender Recognition for Youth’, it argued for the right to change one’s legal sex at any age without parental consent. It acknowledged that this would be unpopular with the public. But other unpopular trans-rights policies had already become law, it explained – citing gender self-identification in Ireland. It recommended linking such proposals with unrelated ones that commanded broad support; in
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