Posted on 12/15/2022 2:05:55 AM PST by RoosterRedux
A woman in Norway is facing up to 3 years in prison on criminal hate-speech charges after saying that a man cannot become a lesbian.
Tonje Gjevjon, a lesbian filmmaker and actress, was informed on November 17 that she was under investigation for speaking out against prominent Norwegian activist Christine Jentoft on Facebook. Jentoft is a transgender female that often refers to herself as a lesbian mother.
Jentoft previously accused another woman, Christina Ellingsen, of transphobia for a similar claim. Ellingsen is also under investigation and faces three years in jail if found guilty.
The post on Gjevjon’s Facebook page under investigation read "It’s just as impossible for men to become a lesbian as it is for men to become pregnant. Men are men regardless of their sexual fetishes."
She has said that she intentionally posted her Facebook message to draw attention to Norway’s hate speech laws.
Gjevjon’s comments appear to be under investigation for falling under a 2020 amendment to the country’s penal code that added "gender identity and gender expression" under protected categories from hate speech. People found guilty of hate speech face a fine or up to one year in prison for private remarks, and a maximum of three years for public comments.
Women’s rights activists, including the Women’s Declaration International Norway, which Ellingsen is a representative of, have claimed that the amendment undermined free speech and expression in the country.
This is not the first time that Gjevjon has spoken out on controversial topics surrounding gender and women’s rights.
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Ludicrous needs things to define.
But but....men ARE lesbians...No?
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The Woke are demanding that all "individuals" must be subservient to the group (the "total") by adhering to the group's rules (i.e., you must not speak in ways that are not approved by the group or in ways that denigrate the approved "group" or "total").
IMO it is important that we start describing the Woke Mob as totalitarian since that is actually what it is.
I don't think people in this country and around the world realize that the Woke movement is a totalitarian movement. I think people heretofore have seen it as a bunch of tolerant, open-minded Social Justice Warriors.
They aren't.
They are as totalitarian as the Nazis or the Bolsheviks.
2+2=5
These headlines saying “up to” are almost never true.
It’s a manipulative way newsmen use of taking a fact “someone blamed” and then connecting it to “what the maximum punishment for that is”.
I haven’t checked what happens in Norway, but their neighbors Sweden and Finland both passed laws banning giving puberty blocker drugs to kids this year.
America should do it too.
Maybe a way to win your lib acquaintances over on this issue is to let them know their revered Sweden just passed a law very similar to the proposed Alabama law?
Remove the silly exterior and you'll find another goosestepping army.
You’re so lucky to have the 1st Amendment given the sh*t that goes on in Europe and elsewhere
And in particular, we can speak freely on FR.
That’s why I donate when I can!
Smart men are lesbians if that’s what it takes. In my experience, being a male lesbian usually means acting like you enjoy shopping or romantic movies when you really don’t.
Good point!
No idea about Gjevjon, but I’m in big trouble.
The left never starts out totalitarian, but it always ends that way. It is when the people start to resist that it goes totalitarian..
Yet they could probably have reached all their goals if they hadn’t speeded everything up so drastically.
Thank goodness they did. Now the resistance has started and it won’t stop.
This is unbelievable, they are mandating people take fiction as fact.
El Rushbo “identified” as a male lesbian as I recall.
I always used to joke that I was a lesbian trapped in a man's body, but then Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner ruined that joke.
I don’t remember people in the West going to jail for a contrary opinion.
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