Greg and Amelia Polheber of Naperville were stopped by police from threatening a man with a "Transwomen are men" sign. | Youtube/Midwest Audit
Greg and Amelia Polheber of Naperville were stopped by police from threatening a man with a "Transwomen are men" sign. | Youtube/Midwest Audit
Naperville Police intervened to stop a husband and wife as they threatened physically a man walking downtown city streets holding a “Transwomen are men” sign.
A video posted by "Midwest Audit" on YouTube shows Greg and Amelia Polheber harassing the unidentified man at the corner of South Main and West Jefferson streets, until police admonished them to leave him alone.
“What are you doing in Naperville?” asked Amelia Polheber, who first confronted the man,” who the video shows had been walking Naperville streets for 15 minutes.
An unidentified man held a "Transwomen are Men" sign on downtown Naperville streets. He has also visited Plainfield, Lombard, Aurora and Batavia.
| Youtube/Midwest Audit
“Are you scared?” she asked.
“Take your hateful message and get out,” she said. “Get out of Naperville”
The man said his message wasn’t hateful, but rather factual.
“They’re men,” he replied.
“Really? How do you know that?” Amelia Polheber said.
Amelia’s husband, Greg, then aggressively confronted the man, who asked him several times to stop coming so close to him.
Police arrived and told the Polhebers to leave the man alone.
“He’s allowed to be here,” one officer said.
“Do you want this to take over?” Amelia Polheber said to the officer. “Do you want this?”
Then Greg Polheber threatened the man.
“If the cops weren’t here, I would beat the living shit out of you.”
Greg and Amelia Polheber, both 40, moved to Naperville from San Diego in September 2020, according to Blockshopper.com. They are Arizona natives who met at the University of Arizona and married in 2009.
Before Naperville, the Polhebers lived in Scripps Ranch, northwest of San Diego.
Amelia Pohleber created the “Scripps Ranch for Diversity and Inclusion” Facebook group in June 2020, to corral a “group of like-minded people in favor of social justice “ in response to George Floyd’s fentanyl death.
According to Linkedin, Greg works in “renewable contracting” with Invenergy in Chicago.
Greg Pohleber, who played lacrosse at Arizona, also has an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
Amelia is a nurse who teaches at North Central College in Naperville.
"Recurrent desires to wear the clothes of his mother"
"Transwomen" is a term used to describe men who have "transvestic fetishism," choosing to dress like women because it sexually arouses them, according to the American Psychiatric Association.
A 2012 study by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Biotechnology Information "describes a 17-year-old male with transvestic fetishism who suffered from obsessive thoughts and subsequent masturbation as compulsion."
"A 17-year-old Indian male presented to the psychiatry outpatient department with the complaint of having recurrent desires to wear the clothes of his mother. The thought was very distressing to the patient and came to his mind again and again until he wore those clothes and masturbated in it," it said.
"For this purpose, he stole a complete set of his mother’s clothes. He has been wearing the clothes secretly for the past 2 years solely for the purpose of pleasure. Recently he was caught by the parents while wearing the clothes and masturbating and then beaten by the parents," the report said.
"He was managed successfully with fluoxetine (Prozac)," the report said.
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