Award-winning Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan, creator of Father Ted and The IT Crowd, says he was arrested in London over social media posts criticizing transgenderism.
Linehan wrote on his Substack that when he arrived at Heathrow Airport he was met by five armed police officers who detained him over “three tweets.”
“In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilised five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet,” he wrote.
He said the sole condition for his release was that he stop posting on X.
The Tweets in Question
Linehan said the allegedly offending posts included:
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A claim that “biological men” entering female-only spaces commit “a violent and abusive act,” where he suggested: “Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”
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A caption on a photo of an LGBTQ+ rally reading: “A photo you can smell.”
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