Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s office was notified about violent transgender sex offender Barbie Kardashian more than two years ago, according to email records obtained by Gript.
The revelation comes after the Taoiseach insisted this week that he had no prior knowledge of Kardashian’s case until the story broke over the weekend.
Kardashian – a biological male with a penis – was convicted in a Co. Limerick court last week of threatening to rape, torture and kill a woman.
Barbie Kardashian – a biological male who identifies as female – has been sentenced to 5 and a half years in Limerick Women’s Prison after threatening to torture, rape and kill women.#gripthttps://t.co/TixzWwChYZ
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The defendant, who Gardaí say poses “a significant threat to the public,” has 15 prior convictions, including for sexual assault, assault causing harm, assault, threats to kill, and causing criminal damage to property.
However, after acquiring a Gender Recognition Cert in 2020, Kardashian is now legally classified as a woman in Ireland, and has been placed into a women’s prison in Limerick among females.
In the wake of this decision, Gript reporters asked Taoiseach Varadkar if he considered Barbie Kardashian to be a woman.
"Is Barbie Kardashian a woman?": Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says that biological males should not be put in women's prisons. pic.twitter.com/wS4vmOPHnT
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The Taoiseach replied “Well, look – I actually don’t know anything about the case yet.”
He added: “I first saw it reported at the weekend and I’m going to have to look into it.”
The Taoiseach repeated this several times, insisting that he had no prior knowledge of the situation.
However, email records obtained by Gript show that Varadkar was included as a recipient of a mass email sent out to public representatives on the 9th of November 2020 – over two years ago – regarding Kardashian’s case.
The email was sent by a concerned mother who asked to remain anonymous. Leo Varadkar was also Taoiseach at the time the correspondence was issued.
“Are you aware of the current situation where a male bodied violent teenager with a Gender Recognition Certificate is being detained in the women’s wing of Limerick prison?” the email read.
“This individual has a history of violence against women and has threatened to kill women but has a Gender Recognition Certificate and so under the current Gender Recognition Act legislation is entitled to be treated as a woman.
“This is not the first time this has happened. In 2019 another violent male bodied sex offender used a Gender Recognition Certificate to claim the right to be housed within the women’s wing of Limerick prison. An article was written about this in the Law Society Gazette in October 2019, but no action has been taken by the government and the public continue to be largely unaware of what is going on.”
The email added: “Other red flags have been raised about this issue and ignored.”
While it is possible that Varadkar did not see the email sent to his office, the woman behind it told Gript that she does not believe the Taoiseach was unaware of the situation.
“Myself and loads of other women have been emailing the politicians for the last 3 years,” she said.
Kardashian, who has been diagnosed with a narcissistic personality disorder, has expressed the desire to rape the female victim in question with a screwdriver and pour boiling water into her vagina.
At a meeting with a social care manager, Kardashian previously said: “If I got into (my mother’s) house I would run towards her and put the knife into her body and into her genitalia; the thing is, I would want to prolong my mum’s suffering for as long as possible.
“I would stab her, but not in her heart or neck, I’d want to put her through lots of torture, fear and humiliation.
“I would bring a screwdriver to insert inside her genitalia because I am a woman and women rape using objects; it would definitely be a long protracted incident, I would want her to bleed out after death after a number of hours, by putting objects into her vagina, pouring boiling water into that area.”
Kardashian, who has been diagnosed with a narcissistic personality disorder, also said:
“I know that my mum is smaller than me, she is physically weak and she is frail, when I was living with her since I was nine or ten I was stronger than her then and I know she would be overpowered by me.
I would only walk away after she was dead. I would check her pulse to make sure she was dead, I wouldn’t want her to run out and shout ‘help’, ‘help’, ‘help’. I wouldn’t want to be caught by the Gardaí, I think I would be caught because I do not feel that I could outsmart them.”