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Comedian Trolls Court, Doubles Down After Arrest For ‘Anti-Trans’ Posts

"This is how you deal with the trans mob. Double down," Riley Gaines cheered him on.

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Comedian Trolls Court, Doubles Down After Arrest For ‘Anti-Trans’ Posts
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Irish comedian Graham Linehan trolled a British court on Thursday when he arrived outside the Westminster courthouse wearing a sandwich board proclaiming, “There is no such thing as a transgender child.”

Standing outside the court, Linehan turned the sign around after several moments to reveal another that read, “Keep men out of women’s sports.” The underside of one of the signs was also briefly visible: “Gender ideology does not belong in schools.”

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Linehan was approached by armed officers upon his arrival at London’s Heathrow airport, some of whom apparently were unable to even explain to him what he’d done to warrant being “arrested at an airport like a terrorist.”

“The moment I stepped off the plane at Heathrow, five armed police officers were waiting. They escorted me to a private area and told me I was under arrest for three posts on X,” Linehan wrote in an op-ed for The Free Press. “In a country where pedophiles escape prison, where knife crime is out of control, the state had mobilized five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for these three posts.”

The posts that prompted the arrest, as The Daily Wire previously reported, include one that says, “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.”

Another has a photo of a trans activist gathering and includes the caption, “A photo you can smell.”

The third one says, “I hate them all. Misogynists and homophobes. F*** em.”

Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines commented on the video of Linehan outside the court, cheering him on.

“This is how Graham Linehan shows up for trial in the UK just days after being arrested in the London airport for posting ‘offensive tweets.’ This is how you deal with the trans mob. Double down. We’re cheering you on, @glinner.”

“Nigel Farage flew across the Atlantic to discuss British censorship. Graham Linehan came the other way to head to court, and was arrested by armed police over a set of posts. Politicians who pretend Britain doesn’t have a free speech problem are only fooling themselves,” Sam Ashworth-Hayes of The Telegraph added.

“The more I think about the #GrahamLinehan case, the more disgusted I feel. An Irish citizen, living in the USA, is arrested by 5 ARMED cops when he arrives in the UK, because of some tweets he wrote on a website that’s owned by an American & based in the USA. Total clownery!” another posted.

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