{"id":85911,"date":"2025-09-26T02:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/85911\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T02:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:13:08","slug":"irish-rail-to-remove-gender-titles-from-online-train-booking-system-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/85911\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rail to remove gender titles from online train booking system \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">People travelling on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-rail\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-rail\/\">Irish Rail<\/a> trains will no longer have to declare their gender when booking a seat online, the company has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The change is to come into effect in the coming months and follows feedback from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/lgbtq+\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/lgbtq+\/\">LGBTQ+<\/a> community on how gender is represented on Irish trains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A survey was carried out by Irish Rail, in partnership with Belong To LGBTQ+ Youth Ireland, with a view to better understanding what mattered to these communities when travelling by train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sixty-eight adults took part, with more than half of the respondents identifying as gay, 27 per cent as bisexual, 12 per cent as lesbian, 16 per cent as transgender and 14 per cent as non-binary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">In response to the feedback from the survey, Irish Rail said it would remove all gender titles from its online booking system. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At present, passengers must select either Mr, Mrs or Ms as their title before entering their name when booking a ticket online. Now, they will just enter their name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The survey was distributed on Irish Rail and Belong To online channels and was not run by an independent polling company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">As part of the survey, Irish Rail made a donation of \u20ac5,000 to the support group. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThis approach allowed Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann to gain meaningful insights into the experiences of LGBTQ+ rail users and directly contribute to the delivery of important services for the community,\u201d an Irish Rail spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/transport\/2025\/09\/22\/little-change-for-passenger-as-new-irish-rail-autumn-timetable-keeps-services-on-track\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Little change for passengers as new Irish Rail autumn timetable keeps services on trackOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Some 71 per cent of survey respondents said they feel safe most of the time as an LGBTQ+ person on public transport, with almost 40 per cent saying rail was more inclusive than other transport options. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">More than one third of respondents said they had used trains to attend LGBTQ+ events\u202fsuch as Pride festivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People travelling on Irish Rail trains will no longer have to declare their gender when booking a seat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,13419,11,12,1678,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-85911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-irish-rail","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-lgbtq","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}