Barbie Kardashian embodies the vile misogyny of trans
Ireland is still pandering to the delusions of a criminal who threatened to rape and kill his own mother.
‘“Dangerous” sex offender Barbie Kardashian is all smiles as she walks free from jail’, read the headline in an Irish tabloid yesterday.
The Sunday World article was accompanied by several images of a man in heavy make-up, strutting down a Limerick street in a baby pink two-piece, with what appeared to be a pair of party balloons stuffed up his shirt. Newly released from prison, Barbie Kardashian posed for the cameras by gripping his cartoon boobs and rolling around on the pavement.
Blokes sporting clownish makeup and comically large fake busts have long lost their shock factor. This kind of fetishistic mockery of womanhood is something women are, sadly, all too used to from the trans cult. But what still manages to boil the blood is the way nearly every article about Kardashian refers to him as ‘she’.
Of course, the same thing happens in reporting of just about any trans offender, from Scottish double rapist Isla Bryson to Californian death cult leader Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota. Yet if you thought the psychotic brutality of Kardashian’s offences might give reporters pause for thought, you would be sadly mistaken. According to most of the Western media – and indeed Irish law – becoming a woman is a matter of self-declaration alone. And this is a gift that is bestowed on any man, no matter how heinously he has behaved towards actual women.
Born Gabriel Alejandro Gentile, 23-year-old Kardashian was released from prison yesterday after serving just two years and six months of his five-and-a-half year sentence (the final 12 months of which were suspended). He was convicted in 2023 of seven counts of making threats against his mother, expressing a desire to torture, rape and kill her. His detailed plan involved forcibly penetrating her with a screwdriver, taking a knife to her, then mutilating her genitals with boiling water. Five psychiatrists warned there was a ‘real danger’ of Kardashian acting on his fantasies.
This was far from the first time Kardashian had been put on trial. He had no less than 15 prior convictions, all for violent offences. These included a sexual assault committed when he was just 13.
Owing to Ireland’s Gender Recognition Act 2015, Kardashian was initially placed in Limerick women’s prison. The GRA states that anyone with a Gender Recognition Certificate can be recognised at the gender of their choosing – thus obliging prison services to place even male rapists in female prisons, if the offender so desires. Speaking on the day of his release, Kardashian expressed a surprisingly nuanced take on this question, admitting that he could ‘understand why people had an issue’ with his placement in the women’s prison. Though this admission would, perhaps, have been more commendable had he not been forcibly removed from said prison over accusations of threatening to kill a fellow inmate and female prison officer.
Kardashian described being moved to a male prison as ‘very tough’ and ‘sad’. I felt that in the men’s prison, people were less likely to view me as a woman’, he told reporters. ‘A lot more people would refer to me using male pronouns than female pronouns… I have a need for people to view me as a woman.’
Kardashian also emphasised how ‘sad’ it made him when people ‘say you can only be defined as a woman if you have female genitalia… like JK Rowling and Graham Linehan’. Of course, given Kardashian’s plainly expressed wish to violently rape and kill women, you could hardly ask for a better living illustration of the argument put forward by Linehan, Rowling and other gender-critical commentators. If you wanted proof that gender self-ID allows deranged men’s feelings to trump women’s safety, then Kardashian’s case makes that undeniable.
More alarming still, it shows just how tight the grip of trans ideology is on Ireland’s institutions – from the justice system to psychiatry to the media. Tellingly, while five psychiatrists could unanimously agree that this individual suffers from dangerous delusions, none would dare admit that his belief he is a woman might be one of them. It is even more revealing that a man can flounce out of prison, declare ‘I don’t have any remorse’ in expressing his wishes to enact cruel sexual torture, and still have the media class accept he is a woman and pander to his preferred pronouns.
The misogyny is glaring.
Georgina Mumford is a spiked intern.