Constitution ties families in knots

Helen grew up in an English Catholic home, met an Irish fellow, fell in love, and followed him to Ireland. They married and had a daughter. And then Helen’s husband told her he was actually a woman.

It wasn’t a total shock. Since early in their relationship, he had been open about his feminine feelings – though in those early years he hadn’t known what those feelings necessarily meant.

“It was the mid-1980s,” ...