Posted on 12/11/2025 4:30:02 AM PST by DFG
A Swiss wind instrument repairman is serving a ten-day jail sentence after refusing to pay a fine imposed for a comment he made on Facebook about biological sex. Emanuel 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!”
As we reported, 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.
He 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!” The Alliance for Freedom of Expression stated that the law, which is supposed to protect freedom, was instead used in this case to undermine it.
Critics argue the conviction shows how Article 261bis is being weaponised to silence dissent on gender ideology, while ignoring biological evidence.
The controversy reflects similar events in other European countries. In Britain, comedy writer Graham Linehan faced legal action over gender-critical social media posts. Linehan was arrested at Heathrow Airport in September, 2025 for allegedly harassing a transgender activist. Although acquitted of harassment, he was found guilty of criminal damage for seizing the activist’s mobile phone–when it was pushed in his face–resulting in a £500 (€569) fine, £650 (€740) court costs, and a statutory surcharge of £200 (€227). Commenting on Brünisholz’s imprisonment, Linehan said on X on December 1st: “I’ve received a statement from Emanuel Brünisholz, who starts a ten-day prison sentence in Switzerland tomorrow for saying that men and women have different skeletons. You can write to the Swiss Federal Dept of Justice and police at info@gs-ejpd.admin.ch to protest this disgraceful situation.”
In the statement he provided, Brünisholz elaborated on his position:
“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 nonsense. These tactics have begun to cast a long shadow over Switzerland and Europe alike, as a kind of woke dictatorship.”
“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!”
…well said!
The Swiss government is now run by the equivalent of the Nazis. Watch for them to start building crematoriums to deal with people who tell the truth.
I wonder what all the countries that are condoning gay relationships will do when Islam’s war visits them and begin attacking those involved in or supporting that lifestyle?
Science says your car is warming the earth.
Science says eating bugs will cool the earth.
Science says COVID came from bat soup.
Science says the COVID vaccine works.
Science says there is no difference between men and women.
You know you can buy a politician.
You can also buy a scientist.
Glarner quote & comments BUMP!
All of Europe has lost its frikkin mind, It’s time for President Trump to issue a Travel Ban for all these countries and NEVER let them here.
Young Marxists always believe they will ruse to the top when the Utopia is achieved, but they’re instead the first against the wall once the capitalists are vanquished.
If only they’d read a history book.
When the U.S. federal government funds ~40–42% of total national R&D and ~50–55% of the “initial” research stages (basic + applied), scientists play the game or they don’t get funded.
If what he said is true, and it is, how can he be jailed for saying it? He must have one crappy lawyer.
“I wonder what all the countries that are condoning gay relationships will do when Islam’s war visits them and begin attacking those involved in or supporting that lifestyle?”
It won’t help us much, but they’ll be ‘dealt with’ as I’m sure that some of the ‘migrants’ are there to ‘take notes’.
Your comment is no different than the left calling republicans Nazis and fascists.
It’s not really all that profound when it’s only a fact of life.
This is what happens if you make Satan’s Minions look like fools. They come after you.
These countries don’t really care about gays. They are just using them to kill freedom of speech. It’s about Marxism.
Switzerland used to be an island of sanity in the middle of Europe.
Very conservative, freedom loving, independent, pro business and free speech.
Sorry to hear this, but old Switzerland is no more.
It took nosedive about when they joined UN in 2002, got more and more under the EU influence and allowed major immigration.
The procurement of forensic evidence utilizing radiological imaging technology should be scientific enough to prove who is what.
Not defending the Swiss here, but his entire statement was, “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!”
He was not, in the eyes of the Swiss court, fined for stating the truth. Rather he was fined and subsequently jailed because he “publicly belittled” LGBTQRSTV!@@rw+ people by stating they had a mental illness.
Although he is correct, the court did not agree. He wasn’t so much punished for stating a fact, but because he had an unpopular opinion in public.
Whether it is fascism, socialism, or communism, the leftist mentality is truly terrifying.
Trump will take this guy as a new immigrant citizen of the USA.
When a Swiss citizen, Emanuel Brünisholz, is found guilty of a crime under Article 261bis of the Swiss Criminal Code for publicly stating, “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!”, and when he is fined and then sent to prison for that statement, my comment is, in fact, distinctly different than the left calling Republicans Nazis and fascists.
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