One Norwegian woman could be looking at a stint of over three years in jail for claiming that men are not able to be lesbians.
Back on the 17th of November, Tonje Gjevjon was informed that she was being openly investigated by police officials over hate speech due to a post they made to Facebook heavily criticizing men who claimed to be lesbians.
EXCLUSIVE: A Norwegian woman is facing criminal charges for stating men can not be lesbians.
Tonje Gjevjon is the second woman in the country to be investigated for criminal "transphobia" in 2022. She faces a potential prison sentence of three years.https://t.co/L2qBNMcj8k
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Gjevjon is a lesbian artist who has been dealing with intense backlash for her stance regarding women. In her suspected post, she also heavily criticized all transgender activists who try to go after women who are against gender ideology.
“It’s just as impossible for men to become lesbian as it is for men to become pregnant,” Gjevjon stated. “Men are men regardless of their sexual fetishes.”
In the offending post, which was translated on Facebook, She wrote, “men with fetishes have been protected as a vulnerable minority through the foolish and constructed concept of gender identity is koko. [sic]”
Gjevjon stated that she posted her message on Facebook on purpose in order to highlight the hate speech law in Norway. the law was altered back in 2020 when the parliament of the country took a vote to make hate speech against those who identify as transgender entirely illegal. Additionally, Gjevjon is not the first to be slammed with charges due to the stance saying men cannot be either lesbians or mothers.
This past year, Gjevjon posited of Anette Trettebergstuen, a politician in the Labour Party, as to what she was going to be doing as a measure to protect the rights of women and girls. She also asked if she believed men could be lesbians.
“I believe it is absolutely necessary to place biological sex as the basis in all contexts where sex has legal, cultural, or practical relevance, and that equating sex with gender identity has harmful, discriminatory consequences for women and girls – especially lesbians,” Gjevjon stated in her question to the politician.
“Will the Equality Minister take action to ensure that lesbian women’s human rights are safeguarded, by making it clear that there are no lesbians with penises, that males cannot be lesbians regardless of their gender identity, and by tidying up the mess of the harmful gender policies left behind by the previous government?” she stated.
Trettebergstuen shot back, “I do not share an understanding of reality where the only two biological sexes are to be understood as sex. Gender identity is also important.”
Gjevjon has also explained how she has been almost wholly rejected by the art community due to her stance, even though she was previously a highly prominent member of the community as an over 15 years veteran.
“I have stated that women are female, that lesbians do not have penises, that children should not be responsible for decisions they do not have the capacity to understand the scope of, and that no-platforming is harmful to democracy. For these opinions I have been canceled several times,” Gjevjon wrote in Klassekampen, a well-known outlet in Norway.
“I was not prepared for the extent of how queer organizations, politicians and activists would demonize a lesbian artist who was not in step. Trans activists contact people I work with, portraying me as hateful and warning against being associated with me,” she stated.
