Barbie Kardashian: the grisly reality of self-ID

Last night, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was asked about the decision to place an extremely dangerous young man, Barbie Kardashian, in a women’s prison. Averting his eyes for a moment, Varadkar claimed that until reading the Sunday papers, he had been unaware of the case, adding that he ‘may have to consider changing the law’. One might have hoped that Ireland’s premier would have been more on top of his brief given the gravity of the situation.

The Taoiseach’s ignorance might be inexcusable, but it is partly understandable. Because from Ireland’s parliament, the Oireachtas, to third-sector bodies like Amnesty International Ireland, a powerful gender clergy holds that sex can be changed with the invocation ‘I identify as’, and that non-believers are hellbound sinners who must be silenced and punished. Consequently, Ireland has gained an international reputation as the European country at the cutting edge of gender ideology. Predictably, it is women who are now paying the heaviest price for this luxury belief – in particular those in prisons.

Since the passing of Ireland’s Gender Recognition Act in 2015, Irish citizens have been permitted to change their legal sex at will, without safeguards or a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria. Since the law was changed, approximately 900 people have obtained a gender-recognition certificate, which estimates suggest is around twice as many per capita as within the UK. In 2020, one of those to do so was a young man who changed his name from Gabriel Alejandro Gentile to Barbie Kardashian. In 2021, he was found guilty of making extreme, sexual threats towards his mother. Kardashian has 15 previous convictions, including for threats to kill, sexual assault, assault causing harm, assault and causing criminal damage to property. Last week, he was sentenced to five and a half years in jail – a sentence he will serve in Limerick women’s prison.

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