# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lydia-foy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:23:20.997Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lydia-foy"
name: "Lydia Foy"
slug: "lydia-foy"
description: "Lydia Annice Foy is an Irish trans woman notable for leading legal challenges regarding gender recognition in Ireland. In 1992, Foy had sex reassignment surgery, and began a 20-year battle to have her birth certificate reflect her gender identity. In 2007, the High Court ruled that the relevant portions of the Irish law were incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. By February 2013, the law had not been changed and she began new proceedings to enforce the 2007 decision. The Gender Recognition Act 2015 allowed for the recognition of change of gender and provided for gender recognition certificates."
tagline: "Irish transgender activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lydia_Foy_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "trans woman"
birthDate: "1947-06-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.27
  momentum:             1.666666666666666
  historical:           9.412096
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%96%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%B9"
    title: "Лідія Фой"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Foy"
    title: "Lydia Foy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Foy"
    title: "Lydia Foy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Foy"
    title: "Lydia Foy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Foy"
    title: "Lydia Foy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Foy"
    title: "Lydia Foy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Foy"
    title: "Lydia Foy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Foy"
    title: "Lydia Foy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B2%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%A1%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%86_%E0%A8%AB%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%8F"
    title: "ਲੇਡੀਆ ਫੋਏ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Foy"
    title: "Lydia Foy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%B9%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F"
    title: "Фой, Лидия"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6707622"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump