No Truth Allowed in Switzerland Now

If you stranded 100 trans women and 100 “cisgender” males on a remote island, archaeologists would find 200 skeletons of males in 100 years. 

This is a basic fact of biology, right? DNA and skeletal structure don’t change with gender recognition certificates or medical mutilation. At best, and it is rare enough to shock, a skilled plastic surgeon might be able to make a decent facsimile of a female. 

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Except that is not true, say the Swiss courts. Even when the brain is gone and the flesh is stripped away by time, the subjective feelings of a man who died years ago trump biological reality. 

In December, Emanuel Brünisholz will begin a 10-day stint in a Swiss prison. His crime? Stating the scientific truth that skeletons cannot be transgender.

Brünisholz’s dystopian tale begins in December 2022. In response to a Facebook post by Swiss National Council member Andreas Glarner, Brünisholz, a wind-instrument repairman from Burgdorf, wrote: ‘If you dig up LGBTQI people after 200 years, you’ll only find men and women based on their skeletons. Everything else is a mental illness promoted through the curriculum.’

In August 2023, Brünisholz was interviewed by Burgdorf police, who interrogated him over the ‘intent’ of his comment. Then came a prosecutor’s letter, informing him that he had been charged with ‘hate speech’ against the relatively new category of sexual orientation in the Swiss Criminal Code. He was convicted and fined 500 Swiss Francs.

He appealed this conviction, but was unsuccessful. In December, a court reaffirmed the guilty verdict, and Brünisholz was ordered to pay an extra 600 Swiss Francs in court costs. Brünisholz, unwilling to throw more time and money at this ridiculous assault on his free speech, did not appeal further. He has since refused to pay his fines and court fees and, as a result, will go to prison.

I always assumed that the Swiss were more immune to absurdities than other Europeans. They are famous for their precision, or at least were. But my assumption turned out to be completely wrong. 

The censorship of gender-critical speech and the accompanying assault on truth is bad enough. But the logical and linguistic contortions in the original judgement make matters even worse. In one passage, the judge wrote:

‘LGBTQI means lesbian, gay, bi, transgender, queer and intersex, and denotes therefore different sexual orientations. It’s a loose group of people who consider themselves a part of the aforementioned sexual orientations. Therefore, LGBTQI is a group of people with specific sexual orientations.’

Come again? According to this court, ‘transgender’, ‘queer’ and ‘intersex’ are sexual orientations, when clearly they are not. Lesbian, gay and bi are orientations. Intersex is a distinct condition. The rest are self-appointed identities.

Prison for saying something that should not be in the least controversial? It makes sense if your goal is to strip meaning from words and hide basic facts. Some people, like Emanuel Brünisholz, refused to be cowed by mere social opprobrium or lesser punishments. As with reality itself, some people are too stubborn to learn what is and is not Approved™ by the authorities. 

Of course, Brünisholz’s imprisonment will serve to elevate the ordinary person’s awareness of just how far things have gone, so it may backfire. Or not. It may take a series of such cases to generate a backlash strong enough to convince the powers that be that they are going down a path their citizens don’t want to travel. 

Censorship rarely works in the long run, but the long run is usually farther away than you think. Absurdities can be imposed on people for years because most are unwilling to face the dire consequences of resistance. Going to jail, even for just 10 days, is enough to deter most people from standing up. 

We are still years away from truly eliminating the practice of requiring that women and girls share locker rooms with sex offenders. The tide has turned in our favor, but rooting out the evil consequences of the trans fad will be no easy task. The establishment still wants to impose its insane ideas on us and is not giving up easily. 

The left lives to have such fights because they mobilize the crazies who support them. We are doomed to spend too much time fighting for the right to live in the real world. 

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