The Gender Recognition Amendment Bill which would curb the more extreme effects of Ireland’s radical transgender laws, has passed the First Stage unopposed.

Speaking in the Dáil yesterday Aontú Leader and Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín said a consequence of the 2015 Gender Recognition Act is that it allows biological men who identify as women to be placed in women’s prisons, even those “who have been jailed for horrific sexual offences”.

He gave the example of a Barbie Kardashian who “was found guilty of threatening to kill, rape and torture his mother”.

“Kardashian was granted a gender recognition certificate by the Department of Social Protection and as a result was placed in a women’s prison”, he said.

“This was a horrendous dereliction of duty by this government in terms of the protection of women and this Aontú Bill is designed simply to prevent male born criminals being placed into Women’s Prisons. Our Bill provides that a gender recognition certificate does not affect whether a person is deemed male or female for the purpose of applying the existing rule as to single-sex accommodation in prisons”.