Man Who Said Men and Women Have Different Skeletons Jailed for Hate Speech
When they found Ötzi, the Copper Age European whose remains were discovered in the Alps a few decades back, they nicknamed him The Iceman because they absolutely could identify him as having been a man. But maybe the forensic anthropologists making such determinations should be put in the pokey. That is, if the experience of a modern European, a hapless man named Emanuel Brünisholz, is any guide.
After all, the Swiss wind-instrument repairman currently sits in jail for doing something related.
As to how his problems began, The European Conservative (TEC) reports:
Brünisholz, from Burgdorf in the canton of Bern, responded to a December 2022 post by Swiss National Councillor Andreas Glarner, writing: “If you excavate LGBTQI people after 200 years, you will only find men and women among the skeletons; everything else is a mental illness that was fostered by the curriculum!”
This didn’t sit well with those who get offended for a living. As a result, TEC continues,
the comment, which stressed the immutability of biological sex, triggered complaints from activists who accused him of incitement to hatred under Article 261bis of the Swiss Criminal Code. Brünisholz was questioned by police in August 2023, and later found guilty of “publicly belittling” LGBT(QI) people.
Brünisholz received a suspended sentence of 2,500 Swiss francs, and was additionally ordered to pay a 500-franc fine along with 800 francs in court fees. Declaring that he would not pay for expressing a scientific fact, Brünisholz announced: “It’s happening. On 2 December I’m going to prison for 10 days!”
A Hopeless Case
Brünisholz filed no appeal against the verdict because his lawyer believes it’s “hopeless.” This judgment is likely correct, too, given the Swiss authorities’ attitude. As The Sunday Telegraph relates:
The court ruled that “the accused, through his comment published on Facebook, publicly denigrated the LGBT(Q)I group of people, on the basis of their sexual orientation, in a manner that violates human dignity.”
My, the statement just drips with supercilious self-righteousness — likely exhibited by pro-abortion sexual devolutionaries no less.
To his credit, however, Brünisholz is unbowed. As he wrote in a statement published at Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan’s Substack:
I am fully prepared to go to prison, if that is what it takes to expose the absurdity and authoritarianism of the trans ideology that has now taken root in Switzerland. I intend to face it with good humour; I will not let myself be bent or broken by those who hope to silence me through pressure or intimidation. That, after all, is their aim: to wear me down until I fall quiet. I have no intention of doing so.
The LGBTQ+ movement behaves like a zealous sect. They try to brand me a homophobe to shut me up. I am nothing of the sort. I repair wind instruments for a living, and I come from a left-wing, tolerant household. What troubles me is watching the activists in that movement exploit ordinary LGB people for political ends that strike me as dangerous non[s]ense. These tactics have begun to cast a long shadow over Switzerland and Europe alike, as a kind of woke dictatorship.