Facts no longer matter

I know what you're thinking. "OMG, how could Ireland get more based!?" But I regret to inform you that they did not in fact imprison someone for life for transhobia. They didn't even make him face the firing squad.

This is the most ridiculously fake claim I've ever seen, but it looks like conservatives are actually sharing despite the article being fake. The actual source appears to be this Facebook post.

This kind of bullshit always triggers my ADHD hyper focus, so I couldn't help but find out what the actual story was.

So needless to say, Enoch Burke (an appropriate name as berk means twat in UK slang) was not imprisoned for transphobia, but for contempt for court.

You can find the details on Wikipedia, but here's a summary.

Enoch Burke is a member of a family of evangelical activists, who appropriately come from County Mayo.

He was fired from his job as a teacher after refusing to use they/them pronouns for a student because he: 1: Interrupted a school event to go on a transphobic rant. 2: Harassed the head teacher so aggressively other teachers had to intervene in order for her to leave. 3: Brought his sister along to his disciplinary hearing and kicked up a fuss rather than act like an adult.

The school then had to hire security to prevent him from trespassing, and had to involve the police. He was told multiple times he had to leave them alone, and refused each time. He has been imprisoned multiple times, and others claim that all he needs to do to stop going back is to agree to follow the court order. He says he will never agree, so people are claiming he's been imprisoned of life when all he needs to do is stop being a dick. Even Westboro Baptist Church literally said he went too far, so you know he's unambiguously in the wrong.

I honestly thought there had to be something more complicated behind his. I thought maybe reactionaries were making fake photos of themselves falling for obvious lies so they can claim some kind of own. "LMAO, leftists are so dumb. They actually think we have the media literacy of a toddler." But no, some people are really that gullible.