Ireland - "Transgender childcare worker sacked for offering child 'a free kiss' as a prize"

The BK case was like the Isla Bryson one - it made a lot of people aware of the reality behind the virtue signalling.

BK [orignally Gabriel Alejandro Gentile] was removed from the women's prison he was first placed in - tricky, because he has a GRC and is legally female, but everybody from the then Taoiseach down agreed that it was wrong for him to be in the women's prison, and the feeling that it 'just wasn't right' overrode BK's legal status.

He served his time and is out in society and still as dangerous and disturbed as ever.
He is a very damaged human being, arguably a danger to himself as well as to others, but apparently not enough to be deprived of his liberty on that basis.

The Aleena Starshine case and the accompanying photo could also be a wake-up call for neutrals, but as far as I can see it hasn't been reported other than in Business Plus.

The case of a trans-IDing man playing on a women's Gaelic football team a while ago produced this very telling photo. So telling that the subject, 'Giulia Valentino' asked for it not to be published in order to protect his ID or safety or something - yeah right!🙄, and the photo quickly disappeared. But not before some of us had saved it, and share it at every available opportunity..

The more the general public see photos like these, the more the sparkle will wear off the virtue signalling.

[Note that this is not making nasty comments about people's appearance for the sake of it, it is about men claiming to be women, maybe even claiming to pass, who don't look even remotely like women.
Are Aleena and Giulia etc. deluded enough to think they actually look like women, or are they just cynically hiding behind anti-discrimination laws and taking the p*ss?]

That last name has more red flags than a Commie rally in downtown Moscow.

The cute-sy Anime name should have seen his CV go straight in the bloody bin.

As another poster pointed out, there must be ‘a fellow traveller’ on the recruitment panel.

No it isn't.

Legally yes, but not in practice.

It’s far more accepted there than in the UK, both in law and in practice.

Look at the Barbie Kardashian case for another example.

Speaking as an Irish person ...

While this is true, I'm surprised at how little impact gender bollocks has actually made day to day in the country - with a few notable exceptions, including this one.

Culturally, the desire to not stand out, to think about the impact (and reaction) of the community has kept the lid on it for most people. So while our politicians are virtue signalling to space and our laws are a mess, the actual impact on the ground is nothing like as bad as you might think. A very different situation to the UK.

I was really surprised to find this story was Irish - and from a more rural part of the country.

It is really weird to employ this person. You don’t have to outwardly discriminate. A MN tinkly laugh and “So sorry, you were very impressive but on this occasion there were a number of better qualified applicants” would do the trick.

You can take anything you like into account. You just don't document it specifically.

All candidates should be asked about their understanding of safeguarding at interview and given training too. Dodgy blokes can be convincing liars though so that doesn't necessarily help.

Agreed. But all he had to do to circumvent that precaution is lock his social media while applying. What else? I think we may well suspect a man turning up in a spinny skirt calling himself Starshine or whatever it was is already a red flag that he's a higher risk than the average applicant, but that's not something they're allowed to take into account is it? It's also true that men in general are a much higher risk than women but you're not allowed to discriminate on sex either unless the occupational requirement exception applies.

Whether I blame the employer or not depends on to what extent he's tried and succeeded in hiding his lack of appropriate boundaries during the interview process really. I think.

Ireland was one of the first countries in the world to introduce Self ID.

Plus, red flag here as potentially the early stage of grooming........ joking about kissing the children.

Yep.

I take that to mean that Ireland has been caught up in a virtue signalling trap of its own making - in trying to posit itself as a 'progressive', post colonial country.

GO woke, go broke. Or in this case go woke and put the charges in your care at risk. What absolute idiot thought this was ever a good idea? Bet they were so proud of themselves for being so progressive and so so clever. Four days and the ba$tard showed his true colours. I hope the left leaning disgrace that hired this fuckwit bloke has been sacked for not putting the safety of those children before their woke claptrap.

This reminds me of the way that everyone fell for Jimmy Saville, even they all knew what a seedy creep he was. It seems when something/someone is promoted as being worthy or good or moral ( Saville and his charity work) for many their inclination is to turn off their brain as well and their instinctive perve alert. Come on! Who wouldn't be alarmed if such a man applied for a job working with children?

What do you mean by that comment?

Quite. Just a look at his name shows he has not yet reached a level of adult maturity required to be responsible for the safety of young children.

Jesus wept!

He must have had a fellow traveller on the interview board. Nothing else makes sense to me, and I don't care who is offended, there's no way a transwoman would be working in any facility where there are children ever, if I had any say in it. Too big a risk to take and while it might be a knee jerk reaction I don't care.

That's why I'm saying I'd expect him to raise it.

Otherwise it would just be a no. Not a risk I'd be willing to take.

I volunteer with young kids.

The number of times I have to gently and politely moved a child who has plonked down in my lap, or kindly ended a hug because, despite it being totally innocent and those wee kids just wanting the security of someone they perceive as a trusted adult, it's inappropriate.

I can't bear the thought of men like this twat working with these vulnerable, tiny kids, smashing through those safeguards that most of us mindfully and diligently maintain; normalising and framing kissing random people as some kind of desirable 'reward' and even worse, him seeing no issues even when it's pointed out 🤢🤢🤢

I'd feel like this whatever he wore or named himself.

It appears he is in a singing group who sung at a benefit for Mayo Rape Crisis.

To be quite frank thorough safeguarding should have been done before employing such a man to work with small children in a creche.

But surely you couldn't broach that subject at interview because you might get accused of discrimination, especially in Ireland?

There was a thread on MN not so long ago about employing trans/NB candidates and lots of people said they wouldn't because they saw them as hard work. In reality they'd move on to the next best qualified candidate.

• because, in case this needs spelled out, this indicates a serious lack of understanding of appropriate boundaries.