Popular ’80s artist Boy George is stepping into the debate over comedian Graham Linehan’s arrest.
Linehan’s arrest at London Heathrow airport went viral when it was revealed he was taken into custody for making anti-transgender social media posts. The Irish comedy writer didn’t let the detainment put a damper on his speech, though, and showed up with a sandwich board bearing the sentiments “Keep Men Out of Women’s Sports” and “There’s no such thing as a ‘Transgender Child’.”
The shocking arrest, which took even Prime Minister Keir Starmer by surprise, sparked a great deal of conversation surrounding freedom of speech. Now, Boy George is weighing in, saying Linehan has a “morbid obsession” with transgender people, and sarcastically asking if he’s supposed to “feel sorry” for the man’s arrest.
Look:
Are we supposed to feel sorry for a grown ass man with a morbid obsession with ‘trans’ people? Graham Linehan is a joke. Just like all the other obsessed fools. https://t.co/cIPBO22er4
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) September 6, 2025
“Are we supposed to feel sorry for a grown ass man with a morbid obsession with ‘trans’ people? Graham Linehan is a joke. Just like all the other obsessed fools,” he wrote.
He defended his take in the comments when people took issue with it:
Who doesn’t love a conservative drag queen? @TheMrMarilyn is putting on tea and cakes for you. Interested? Lol! JK is coming but dressed as a man. It’s all very fruity.
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) September 6, 2025
When you are talking about something that does not concern you I think you are just wasting the chance to say something inspiring. https://t.co/6nWZZi9Dqx
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) September 6, 2025
I am not on board with any phobia’s, especially ones about gender and identity. I don’t need your benefit but you have my doubt. What a joke, you have repeatedly…..I’m not thick, you are just proper deluded. Go away.
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) September 6, 2025
Others simply don’t like the way the current political climate is headed:
We don’t arrest people for their opinions or their choice of lifestyle (when their lifestyle does not harm others) in a free society.
But then that begs the question is the Uk a free society?Or are their police now the brutal arms of a group that has been given the freedom to…
— Joy (@JoyfulAICreate) September 7, 2025
“We don’t arrest people for their opinions or their choice of lifestyle (when their lifestyle does not harm others) in a free society. But then that begs the question is the Uk a free society? Or are their police now the brutal arms of a group that has been given the freedom to live a lifestyle and now wishes to prevent all others from the freedom to criticize the harms that lifestyle is inflicting upon others? Who is the one obsessed in this situation anyway?” wrote one X user.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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