by Michael Deacon, Telegraph
This shameful action by police shows that those in positions of power and influence are still marching to trans activism’s tune
So let’s get this straight. If a mugger snatches your phone, the police will do nothing. If burglars ransack your home, the police will do nothing. If your daughter is raped by a grooming gang, the police will do nothing.
But if you write a social media post that offends someone who identifies as transgender, you’ll be abruptly set upon by five armed officers.
Obviously, it shouldn’t need saying that the arrest of Graham Linehan, the award-winning comedy writer and co-creator of Father Ted, brings shame on the police and makes our country look like a tinpot dictatorship. Nonetheless, I believe that this disgraceful episode will at least have one upside. Because it demolishes, once and for all, one of trans activism’s most subtly pernicious arguments.
Speak out against the notion that biological males should be allowed in women’s changing rooms and inevitably you’ll be deluged with abuse. Some disciples of trans ideology, however, will take a less aggressive approach and ask: “Why do you care, anyway? Trans people are a tiny minority, who account for less than one per cent of the population. So how do these issues affect you?”
Well, now the whole nation can see the answer. These issues affect every last one of us – because they imperil our freedom of speech. Defy the gender fanatics and you too could find yourself surrounded by gun-toting policemen. Graham Linehan’s arrest, therefore, proves that trans ideology is a threat to us all.
Read also: The arrest of Graham Linehan should be a turning point by Andrew Doyle
Free speech no longer exists in Britain by Alex Berenson
The arrest of Graham Linehan is an abomination by Brendan O’Neill, spiked