Leaked documents from a Polish town council session reveal that Winnie the Pooh’s uncertain gender and revealing clothing have caused naming a playground a lot of bother.

In the small Polish town of Tuszyn, quite some distance from the Hundred Acre Wood, the town council has been trying to come up with a name for the new playground. Originally in the running was Winnie the Pooh, ursine honey-fiend and beloved children’s character whose gentle antics have charmed generations of children. 

According to the minutes obtained by the Croatian Times, one of Tuszyn’s female councillors was heard saying: “Anyone who knows Winnie the Pooh knows he has no genitalia.”

The council member also described Winnie as an immodestly-dressed hermaphrodite, claiming that the bear’s creator AA Milne had identity issues that provoked him to neuter the bear with “a rusty razor blade.”

In an interview with the Polish current affairs programme TTV, the townspeople of Tuszyn express bafflement with their elected officials. One resident said: “Winnie the Pooh was a bear with low intellect, and unfortunately, this is also evident in those officials who are concerned with this topic.”

But it turns out that the motivation to defame Winnie the Pooh may all have been politically motivated. The Tuszyn town council did finally decide to name the playground after a famous children’s bear, preferring to honour the (fully-clothed and definitely masculine) Polish character, MiÅ› Uszatek.

Councillor Ryszard Cichy, 46, opposed Pooh because of his wardrobe. "Ours is dressed from head to toe, unlike Pooh who is only dressed from the waist up."

The popular Polish character MiÅ› Uszatek [Flickr/Tatanka74]

[H/T: News.com.au]