Barbie Kardashian is out of prison

Barbie Kardashian says he regrets not yet having raped the two women he threatened while he was in prison but he will now postpone those rapes until he has first murdered three other named people. Barbie told me this when he came out of the gates of Limerick Prison this week, having just spent five years inside. Outside the prison, I was the first person he spoke to.

Barbie was pleased there was a media presence there waiting for him, even though it was only me and a photographer from the newspapers (another journalist, David Raleigh of the Irish Mirror, would arrive shortly afterwards). Barbie was wearing a lot of make-up. And he was sporting absurdly large fake breasts. He jiggled those breasts for the photographer and then lifted his outsize bra to show a smaller bra underneath to prove to us that he is developing real breasts, albeit small ones, as a result of the feminising hormone treatment that he has been receiving while in prison.

Barbie’s five year sentence was for threatening to rape and torture his mother. And he had a lot of previous convictions from when he was a juvenile for threatened and actual violence and sexual assaults upon women. Upon his being sent to prison in 2022, the court heard that the then 20-year-old man before them, who had some time before changed his name to the feminine-sounding Barbie Kardashian, was now in possession of a gender recognition certificate which meant that he also had now legally changed his sex. That’s how gender self-identification works in Irish law; a man becomes a woman if he says he is a woman. Accordingly, Barbie was sent to do his prison time in a women’s prison, specifically, the women’s section of Limerick Prison. In that women’s prison, he joined two other trans-identified men who were there before him, one of whom was a sex offender, the other there for a series of physical assaults upon men.

By November of 2022, I was publishing interviews with women former-prisoners who were telling me that they had been regularly subjected to threats of rape and sexual violence from some of the men they had been incarcerated with. And whereas the threats were intermittent, the fear that these men instilled in the women was constant. I wrote to the prison authorities about what was happening and I was ignored. I telephoned and was treated with rudeness and was told I had to write, which I again did, and once again I was ignored. But, by January of 2023, the prison authorities were taking notice because, in that month, one of those men, Barbie Kardashian, started picking up criminal charges for allegedly making threats against women in the prison. By April he had picked up four such charges and the Minister for Justice took the decision that month to transfer Barbie to a part of Limerick Prison where he would have no further contact with women.

The charges against Barbie came before Limerick Circuit Court in October of 2024. He faced four charges of making threats of rape and violence against two women in the prison; one a prison officer named Roisin Linnane, the other a prisoner named Teghan McGhee. As I reported from the trial at the time, Barbie, in his evidence, did not deny he had made those threats. He did the opposite. He told the court that he had threatened to rape the prisoner Tegan McGhee with an object and thus injure her to the extent that “she would not be able to have children.” When asked what object he had in mind, he explained “I wanted to use an electric rod, but that was not available to me. I remember thinking I wanted to use the handle of a sweeping brush or a mop. I wanted to torture her sexually; I wanted to sexually electrocute her genitalia.”

He told the court he wanted to “molest” prison officer Roisin Linnane. He said he would do this by “putting my hands between her legs and grabbing her vagina.” This would be a more “realistic” threat than rape, he said, because the opportunity to rape her while he was in prison was unlikely to arise.

Barbie was the last witness to give evidence at his five-day trial. Then the jury retired and came back later that afternoon with their verdict. Barbie Kardashian was found not guilty on all counts.

So when Barbie came out of prison this week, the first thing I wanted to know from him was whether or not he still intended to rape those two women if got the chance, or did he now regret making those threats. Barbie answered: “My regret is not carrying out the threat. I really wanted to use an object to rape them. They deserve to suffer.” When I asked Barbie if he had been surprised, as I was, at his having been found innocent of the charges against him, he replied: “I got away with that.”

Teghan McGhee’s offence in Barbie’s eyes, that led to her deserving to be raped and tortured, was that she had criticised his shower hygiene, accusing him of leaving the shower she shared with him in an unsatisfactory state. That’s how Barbie explained it at his trial last year and repeated to me outside the prison this week. McGhee’s prison cell, as we heard at the trial, was Cell E1 on the E (Echo) landing. Barbie was next door in E2. Another trans-identified man, a child-abuser, was in E3. (The shower unit was at the end of the E-landing, which is how the women prisoners knew, as they have explained to me, that they were under observation from sex-offender men looking out of their cell door peepholes when they were on their way to and from using the shower.) So the cells were close enough to allow verbal communication between the prisoners. Today, Barbie still regrets that he never got to rape Teghan McGhee but, he says, he did have the satisfaction of hearing her weep in her cell after he had made extended rape threats against her. “That gave me pleasure”, said Barbie. “I enjoy making people suffer”.

So will Barbie try to rape those two women now that he is out of prison or will he not? I found it hard to get a straight answer on that, as you will hear if you listen to my podcast, but Barbie thinks he probably won’t get around to raping them just yet because his priority is to first murder three people, namely, his father, his mother and the prison governor. He doesn’t know how to find his mother or father as he doesn’t now know where they live but he has a plan for the murder of the Limerick prison governor.

Apart from the three people he wants to murder and the two women he wants to rape, Barbie says he poses no threat to the public. He will be using women’s public toilets, he told me, and he says women should understand that he is not going to harm them. Barbie criticised JK Rowling and Graham Linehan, both of whom, he said, were spreading the mistaken view that transgender people were dangerous people. As Barbie was making this last point to me as we were standing outside the prison, a woman called out “Hi Barbie” from a passing car. Barbie looked up and then exploded in anger when he recognised who the woman was. “That’s Teghan McGhee” he said. “She must have got released from prison. I want to rape her. I want to rape her with an object.”

Barbie says he is planning changes to his body. “I hate my male genitalia”, he says. “I hope to get surgery in the future. I want to have a pussy. I want to be a female porn star and get fucked on camera. I want to be a prostitute so men will pay me for sex.” And he has more surgery planned: “I want to get my nose done, my teeth done, my chin done, my jaw done, my lips done. I also want to get liposuction because I have fat around here (his middle). I want a tummy-tuck. I also want to get designer vagina surgery, so I want my labia, my vulva to be really tight. Surgery means so much to me. It’s so important. I don’t want to look natural. I want to look like a doll. That’s why I changed my name to Barbie.”

When the other two men of the press corps left us, I was left alone with Barbie. It seemed to me that this manic, angry man shouldn’t be left on the street without someone to mind him. Then, to my relief, two men joined us who Barbie introduced to me as his prison after-care minders who were going to escort him to his new residence in Dublin somewhere. The two carers were calm, friendly and good-humoured and I was pleased to be able to leave Barbie in good hands.

I’m still shocked listening back to Barbie now, as I think anyone would be who hears what he has to stay. I’m shocked and angry. There is so much there to be angry about.

I’m angry at the legislators who gave Barbie a gender recognition certificate which makes him legally a woman. Barbie says he intends using women’s public toilets, as he is now entitled to. On the street, I argued with Barbie that women might have well-founded fears about men such as he entering what were once women-only spaces. But, I’m thinking now, why should there even be an argument? How about if women could just say they don’t want men in their toilets and not have to explain their reasons? It’s a measure of the strength of the transgender lobby in Ireland that keeping men out of women’s toilets is something they have successfully made a subject that women now have to debate.

I’m angry at all the commentators, social media pundits, politicians and trans rights activists who have dismissed women prisoners’ concerns about being incarcerated with trans-ID men. Can you imagine being a woman in the cell next to Barbie’s and being forced to listen, night after night, to his vile and disturbing threats and fantasies? One well-known Irish trans activist, whose words I have heard quoted favourably in the Dail (the Irish parliament), responded to what the women on my podcast had to say with this heartless comment: “Women in the Dochas Centre (women’s prison in Dublin) can hear buses on the North Circular Road, but they’re unlikely to be run over by one!”. In which case women subjected to obscene phone calls really have nothing to complain about. It’s time that the people who said there was no issue about trans-ID men in women’s prisons admit that they got it wrong.

I’m angry at the trade unionists and people who say they stand up for working women but have let down women such as the prison officer Roisin Linnane. If, in any other circumstances, a woman had to endure ongoing threats of sexual abuse in her workplace, the trade unions and NGOs such as the National Women’s Council would be standing up for her and making sure that the abuse was stopped. But Linnane has had none of these supposed champions of women’s rights on her side because the man abusing her was wearing a dress.

I’m angry at the doctors who have led Barbie to believe that he can be a woman if he wants to be. When Barbie told me of his intention of being fucked by straight men after he gets his operation, I gently suggested to him that a man such as myself, who is sexually attracted to women, is never going to want to have sex with him, even after he gets his operation. But Barbie was undeterred, such is the level of delusion that the medical profession have fostered in him. I pray that the surgeons are never let loose on Barbie and that he never gets the “gender-affirming surgery” that Irish politicians of both Left and Right have been so keen to promote.

And I’m angry at the journalists who have broken their necks looking the other way when I and a few others have been trying to draw public attention to the suffering that women prisoners have had to endure as a result of having been locked up with men like Barbie. Now that Barbie’s out, the media seems mainly concerned to respect his pronoun preferences. He has been called “she” throughout their coverage, even when reporting the rape threats “she” made to “her” mother. A rape threat made by a man is more scary and credible than such a threat would be if made by a woman (which is one of the reasons I think the court trying Barbie last year was wrong to pretend throughout the trial that he was a woman). But the journalists are saying that pronouns are not important and that people such as me are “obsessed” with pronouns. Our newspapers have been running podcasts in which their journalists sit and agree with each other that they are using preferred pronouns to “show respect to the trans community” as one of them puts it. How about showing respect to the women who have had to endure Barbie’s threats and who have no confusion about the sex of their potential rapist? In another such podcast, two male journalists agree that the preferred pronouns of a person should always be used regardless as to whether or not that person is making rape threats against women, as in the case of Barbie, or discussing their hobbies such as fishing or surfing. “It’s just out of politeness, it doesn’t really matter”, one of the journalists says

Barbie’s release, and his refusal to stay quiet, is causing a problem to all those powerful groups- politicians, doctors, journalists- who have promoted transgender ideology and claimed that only bigots have wanted a debate on same. But the public looks at Barbie and people see why such men shouldn’t be told that they are women. Should he really be admitted to women’s spaces? Should he really be indulged in all the bodily mutilation that he wants the surgeons to do on him? And should his delusions be supported by our media, calling him “she” even as he threatens to rape women?

I think the public will be debating all of those questions. Barbie Kardashian has made sure of that.

(You can hear the interview with Barbie Kardashian on my podcast, and also see much of the video I recorded on the Gript website here)

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