Mick Hartley

I posted about Barbie Kardashian the other day, in the context of California's decision to house trans-gender inmates according to their self-proclaimed gender identity. He (I can't quite bring myself to use his preferred pronoun) is the troubled young Irish man with a record of sexual violence against women. He claims now to have transitioned, and his solicitor said that he was very anxious to be "detained in a prison facility for females, as she identifies as a female.” I assumed, naturally, that such a request would be denied given the man's record of violence against women, including a serious assault on his mother. Besides which, on his visit to London's Tavistock Clinic, he was said to have outlined his gender dysphoria symptoms by rote, without emotion – as though he was reciting from something he'd learned. Plus he looks like something from a horror film.

Silly me. Of course he's now in the women's prison:

A teenager was today remanded in continuing custody on charges of making threats to kill two people.

Barbie Kardashian, (18), of no fixed abode, appeared before Limerick District Court, via video-link from the women’s section of Limerick Prison.

She is accused of four counts of making threats to kill or cause serious harm to a woman and a man, on dates in July, August, and September this year.

The power of his gender re-assignment certificate over-rules any threat that he may pose to the unlucky women inside Limerick Prison. Ireland is, after all, a progressive country. The fantasies of a violent sexual predator must be humoured. If that's at the expense of women's safety, well, who really cares?

Last Friday, Kardashian also appeared in court. During that hearing, Garda Shane Kirwan of Roxboro Road Garda Station, Limerick, informed the court the accused was “born a male but identifies as a female”.

Garda Kirwan said he arrested Barbie Kardashian at 8.30pm last Thursday night, 24 September, and she did not reply to any of the charges.

Sergeant Moloney told the hearing that gardaí would make “strenuous objections” if the accused applied for bail.

Because, clearly, he's a threat to the general public, who need to be protected from him. Women in Limerick Prison, not so much.

Not everyone is happy about this.