In this horrific story, we are told how a 26-year-old woman, in Britain, live-streamed herself killing her pet cat and putting it through a blender before going out on the town and killing a 30-year-old man with a garrotte. So this woman, it seems, is not just a sadistic and psychotic killer of the sort that is almost always male, but is also a woman of exceptional strength. A woman with the strength of a man, it would appear. At this stage, if you don’t know the story already, I expect you’ve guessed that the killer is not a woman, as reported across the media here and in Britain, but is a man. As I read the story, I was wondering when the words “the woman, who is trans”, would appear in the story but this doesn’t happen. The Irish Independent let the lie stand that the killer is a woman.
The mainstream media in Ireland is getting worse. Irish journalists are putting the demands of the trans lobby first and the right of the public to know the facts, second.
The warning signs have been with us for some years now. Our media, if not actually lying, have long been willing to “bury the lead” in the service of the trans agenda. Back in 2019 we read about the woman who was sent to Limerick Prison for the repeated sexual abuse of her stepson. The court heard she had threatened to pull the little boy’s arms off if ever he told anyone what was going on. Somewhere down the press coverage we eventually read, in a sub-clause of a sentence somewhere, that the abuser was “trans” and suddenly the story makes sense. That’s the moment when we realise what the headline should have been. “Male child abuser sent to women’s prison” is the truly newsworthy part of this story. But our media decided to bury the lead.
Last September the media told us that a woman got a three month suspended sentence for assaulting another woman in a hostel for homeless women in Dublin.
Now the rot had truly set in. Nowhere were we told that the assailant was “trans”. “Woman assaults woman in homeless hostel” is a dog-bites-man story and it got as little public attention as you might expect. I’ll tell you the real story.
A man, 33, was convicted in March of 2021 for assaulting three people. Sometime between committing that crime and being convicted, he changed his name and got a gender recognition certificate to say he was now a woman. Accordingly, on getting a 24 month (12 of which suspended) sentence, the judge directed that he be sent to a women’s prison. He was sent first to the Dochas in Dublin and later to the women’s prison in Limerick.
He was let out of prison some time early in 2022 and the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive chose to refer him to the Novas women’s hostel in Rathmines. That was the hostel that used to be widely known as the “battered wives” home and was always supposed to be a safe place for women where men would not be allowed in. Not any more.
In April of 2022, this trans-identified man assaulted a woman in that hostel. That case came to court in September of 2023, by which time the defendant was back doing a month in the Dochas for something else. The court heard that the accused had punched the homeless woman several times and ripped clumps of hair from her scalp. A three month suspended sentence was imposed.
Why did our media bury the lead on this story? The opening line should have read something like: “Man with GRC, after release from women’s prison, gets referred to women’s refuge where he commits further assault”. What’s gone wrong with our journalists? Why are you lying to the public? The woman who was beaten up in the hostel would have been in no doubt that it was a man’s fists that rained down upon her. Why become a journalist at all if you’re not going to stand up for the most vulnerable of people?
The mainstream media in Ireland is doing a very efficient job in burying the lead on trans stories. It has gone from obscuring the fact if a convicted person is trans to concealing it entirely. Or more likely, not reporting the case at all. I’ve been critical here of the coverage, such as it was, of the assault on the homeless woman in the Rathmines hostel. The greater part of the media simply ignored that story altogether.
And that allows politicians to pretend all is fine in their project of forcing men into women’s spaces. Here is Minister Jennifer Carol MacNeill speaking in the Oireachtas last October:
“…since the gender recognition change in 2015, neither I nor any woman with whom I am personally acquainted has raised the spectre or fact of men coming into women’s places in order to attack them.”
Minister, you need to listen to a wider circle of women than those with whom you are personally acquainted. You could speak to the woman who was attacked in Rathmines, for a start. As I wrote you after you made that statement, if you listen to my podcast you can hear plenty of women who have been in prison or who are in homeless hostels who raise the spectre or fact of having to share these spaces with men, including men who are sex offenders.
Were it not for publications such as my podcast, Gript Media, The Countess and others, the story of these vulnerable women would not be being heard at all. That would suit the politicians just fine. If only they had a way of making online media just as docile as the mainstream variety.
And that, I believe, is where their hate speech plans come in. In the approximately two years I have been podcasting, my enemies who, of course, refuse to listen to my work, are consistently saying that I am “spreading hate” or even, somehow, causing trans people to be assaulted. These same enemies are also enthusiastic supporters of hate speech legislation. In their dreams, they will be able to force journalists such as me to pretend that all is well in forcing men into women’s spaces, that sex offences are now as likely committed by women as by men, and that incidents such as gender-based threats and violence in women’s hostels are not happening. Or failing being able to make me lie, they at least hope to be able to stop me from telling the truth.
As I say, in their dreams. I’ll do prison before I lie for them. And I know I won’t be going there alone.