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Tonje Gjevjon (left) spoke out against transgender activist Christine Jentoft (right)

  • Tonje Gjevjon spoke out against transgender activist Christine Jentoft, who transitioned from being a man and now identifies as a ‘lesbian mother’
  • Gjevjon is now under police investigation and faces three years in prison 
  • Norway’s parliament outlawed hate speech against transgender people in 2020

Rachel Bunyan – Mail Online Dec 16, 2022

A gay Norwegian filmmaker faces three years in prison after she said male-to-female transgender women cannot be lesbians.

Tonje Gjevjon spoke out against transgender activist Christine Jentoft, who transitioned from being a man and now identifies as a ‘lesbian mother’.

‘It is just as impossible for men to become lesbians as it is for men to become pregnant,’ Gjevjon wrote on Facebook in October. ‘Men are men regardless of their sexual fetishes’.

Gjevjon is now under police investigation and faces a maximum of three years in jail for her public comments after Norway’s parliament outlawed hate speech against transgender people in 2020.

Norway expanded its penal code, which has protected gay and lesbian people since 1981, to include transgender people two years ago.

Gjevjon, who is also an artists, told Reduxx her Facebook post was made to draw attention to Norway’s amended hate speech law, adding that trans activists have tried to shut down her art exhibitions for her views.

She wrote in an essay in Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen: ‘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 cancelled several times.’

Gjevjon said she has been ‘demonized’ by the trans activists and politicians for her views.

She wrote in the newspaper: ‘I was not prepared for the extent of how queer organizations, politicians and activists would demonize a lesbian artist who was not in step.

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