Philipa Ryder

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:08:18 GMT

Philippa Ryder (she/her) is a transgender woman. She joined the Irish civil service, the Property Registration

Authority, in 1980 and retired in 2022. She is married with one daughter.

Philipa’s memoir ‘My Name is Philippa’ is available as an e-book and audiobook from Mercier Press https://www.mercierpress.ie/books/my-name-is-philippa/ and is available in all good bookshops, libraries, online and audiobook platforms.

Paperback copies are available via Banner Books, Co. Clare, Ireland https://bannerbooks.ie/shop/discover-irish-books-and-authors/my-name-is-philippa and https://www.bookworld.ie/products/my-name-is-philippa-1

Philipa became involved with LGBTQ+ activism when she came to terms with herself as transgender, eventually transitioning about 15 years ago. She was very involved with both the Marriage Equality and Repeal the 8 th referenda. She describes herself as a passionate, inclusive feminist.

Over the past 20 years she has been a board member and chair of Transgender Equality

Network Ireland (TENI) and part of the Steering Committee of Transgender Europe (TGEU).

She was a founding committee member of Sporting Pride, Ireland’s LGBTQ+ sports

organisation and represented Ireland at the World Gay Games in Paris in 2018.

She was also Chair of the Board of Dublin Pride, retiring in 2026. She was Grand Marshal of Dublin Pride 2026.

Credits:

Host: Orla Vaughan

Editors: Caitríona Murphy and Orla April Koivisto

Production Coordinator: Linda McGrath

Production Support: Dani Lovera Teixeira, Megan Atkinson and Kai Allen

Other references in this podcast include:

TENI - Transgender Equality Network Ireland https://teni.ie/

Sporting Pride https://www.sportingpride.ie/

The Gay Games https://www.gaygames.org/

TGEU - Trans Europe and Central Asia https://www.tgeu.org/