‘Barbie Kardashian’: The Insanity of Transgender Ideology

It’s hard to overstate just how mad the case of ‘Barbie Kardashian’ is. The Irish transgender criminal (a male named Gabriel Alejandro Gentile) made headlines back in 2023, after he was initially sent to a women’s prison in Limerick, Ireland, for threatening to rape, torture, and kill his own mother. Kardashian had been given a four-and-a-half-year sentence for the threats, with the final 12 months suspended. Having served two and a half years of that sentence, Kardashian is now free.

This is despite the fact that, at the time of Kardashian’s trial, a detective raised concerns that he posed “a significant threat” to the “wider public.” The five psychiatrists that assessed him prior to sentencing reached a similar conclusion, finding that there was a “real danger” Kardashian would realise his “fantasies” of rape and murder. A probation service pre-sentence report similarly noted there were “major concerns that the accused is unrepentant about their threats to kill or cause serious harm to their mother.” 

Now, Kardashian disagrees with those assessments. Speaking to reporters outside Limerick Prison yesterday, he said that he didn’t feel like he was a threat to anyone. Yet in the same breath, he admitted that he does still “have a really strong urge” to physically and sexually harm people and that “I worry that I will carry out that urge.” He also complained that his time in prison was “very damaging to my mental health” and lamented the fact that, in the men’s prison, “a lot more people would refer to me using male pronouns than female pronouns.” The mainstream media has, of course, largely referred to Kardashian as “she” and “her.” 

We need not feel sorry for Kardashian. He is a particularly nasty piece of work. By all accounts, he was a violent youth who had to be taken into care to protect his mother from him—from the age of 10, he boasted about being able to physically overpower her. At 17 years old, he attacked his social worker, tearing out clumps of her hair and ripping her eyelid off. During his stint in a women’s prison, he ended up in court yet again for making threats against fellow inmates. Kardashian admitted during the trial that he wanted to “torture” and “electrocute” the genitals of a female prisoner, leaving her so injured “she would not be able to have children”. He also told the court that he had wanted to rape a female prison officer. Kardashian was acquitted by the jury. 

It is abundantly clear that Barbie Kardashian should never, even for a moment, have ended up in a women’s prison. For starters, he is a man—that should be reason enough. He is also a violent man, who has a track record of making threats against women. He shouldn’t have been anywhere near female inmates. Thankfully, he was eventually moved to a men’s prison in 2024, after sufficient fuss was made and Ireland’s prison watchdog admitted that housing an aggressive and clearly mentally unstable man among  women might not have been a great idea. 

Why was this man allowed into the female estate to begin with? It was a question that even then Taoiseach Leo Varadkar struggled to answer. In March 2023, a journalist asked him whether he thought Barbie Kardashian was a woman. After an awkward silence, Varadkar said: “Well, look, I, I, I, I don’t know anything about the case yet, I saw, I first saw it reported at the weekend, erm, and, and, I’m going to have to look into it.” He did then admit that he didn’t think that violent males should be allowed in women’s prisons. So how come Kardashian ended up in one? 

In 2015, Ireland introduced the Gender Recognition Act. This essentially means that anyone who wants a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) can get one. There is no need for a person identifying as transgender to receive any kind of surgery or hormone treatment to be legally considered a member of the opposite sex. Nor is there any requirement for a medical professional to even diagnose them as having gender dysphoria. Applications for GRCs are hardly ever rejected, either. In the ten years since the law has been in place, 1,544 GRCs have been accepted, and only six have been refused. Out of the 24 applications made by 16- and 17-year-olds, none have ever been rejected. 

This is how, in 2020, Gabriel Alejandro Gentile legally ‘became a woman’ named Barbie Kardashian. It is also how Kardashian (who is yet to have undergone sex-reassignment surgery, but does sport a pair of comically large prosthetic breasts) managed to gain access to a woman’s prison—even though the reason he was incarcerated in the first place was because he had threatened to rape and murder a woman. Now that he’s free, he will have access to any female-only space he wishes. He will be able to enter women’s toilets and changing rooms as he pleases. If he is treated in hospital, he will be sent to a female ward. Theoretically, if he turned up at a women’s domestic violence shelter, he might not necessarily be turned away. Anyone with eyes can look at Kardashian and tell that he is a (very mentally unwell) man. And yet, under Irish law and woke orthodoxy, we are compelled to treat him as a woman.  

Incredibly, Kardashian isn’t even the only male criminal who has ended up in a women’s prison in Ireland. Another transgender inmate—who cannot be named to protect his victim—was convicted of ten counts of sexual assault and one count of child cruelty, for which he was sentenced to six and a half years in prison. As far as the public is aware, he is currently serving this alongside female inmates. Another trans-identifying man was sentenced to one year in a women’s prison in 2021 for attacking a man, leaving him with a fractured skull and a brain bleed. Although transgender prisoners are kept in single cells, female inmates have still reported feeling unsafe, as men would often scream abuse at them. Ireland is clearly failing to protect some of society’s most vulnerable women from its most dangerous men. 

Gender ideology has forced the West to essentially abandon women’s safety and dignity. We currently live in a world where women are being forced to use ‘secret’ bathrooms to hide from men, and where nurses end up fighting to save their careers because they refuse to share a changing room with their male colleagues. How on Earth is this progress? Women are being shamed into silence and coerced into accepting these ludicrous attacks on their rights and spaces under the threat of being called bigots. And for what? So that a tiny group of mentally unwell men can have their egos stroked, and so that woke activists get to feel smug and virtuous. 

The Kardashian saga is the clearest illustration of this—a man with a history of violence was able to call himself a woman, and the Irish prison system and mainstream media bowed to his demands. Safeguarding was thrown out and reality was contorted so that a criminal could be pandered to. As is always the case with trans ideology, it was women who were expected to live with the consequences.