Comedy Writer Arrested By Armed Police In London Over Trans Jokes

By Cullen McCue

Award-winning Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan was arrested by heavily-armed police upon arriving at London’s Heathrow Airport over social media posts that were critical of transgenderism.

Linehan, the creator of the critically-acclaimed comedy programs “Father Ted” and “The IT Crowd,” said Monday that he was arrested by five “armed police officers,” a notable distinction as most police in the U.K. do not carry firearms, over three social media posts.

“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 (and no, I promise you, I am not making this up),” Linehan wrote on his Substack.

The posts in question were shared by parental rights in education activist Billboard Chris. “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls,” reads one of the posts.

Another post shows a photo of LGBT and transgender activists captioned, “A photo you can smell.”

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