British soccer team Newcastle United has banned a fan from attending their games until 2026 because she posted on social media that men cannot become women.
“It’s like they’re trying to trans the gay away,” Newcastle United fan Linzi Smith wrote in one post. “You’re a young woman who likes sport? YOU’VE BEEN BORN IN THE WRONG BODY!!!! You’re a young man who likes makeup and dressing up??? YOU’VE BEEN BORN IN THE WRONG BODY!!!! Make it make sense.”
Smith’s posts were compiled into an 11-page report prepared for the English Premier League, the sports association to which Newcastle United belongs. The report not only recorded Smith’s social media activity but also other details about Smith’s life such as her aliases, residence, place of employment, and where she walks her dog.
The English Premier League gave the dossier to Newcastle United, which revoked Smith’s membership and banned her from games for violating its “equality and diversity membership rules,” reported The Telegraph. Newcastle United then sent the report to Northumbria Police, who placed Smith under investigation for her remarks.
Police officers visited Smith at her home. At first she refused to let them in but relented when they said they had grounds to arrest her. The officers interrogated Smith for 25 minutes. She later received a call from the police who told her she had not committed any crime.
“I’m struggling to believe this has happened to me. It’s mind-blowing that they have gone to such lengths because I have expressed views to which I am entitled on my personal Twitter account,” said Smith. “They have behaved like the Stasi — it was being done so covertly that I didn’t even know what was happening.”
The report was triggered after someone filed a complaint about Smith, accusing her of being discriminatory towards “trans people.” The complainant also accused Smith of associating with people who do not believe that men can be women.
“They kept telling me they want everyone to feel included — but it appears you’re only welcome if you follow their thought process on everything, and if you don’t you are banned. It is sinister and I feel violated, to be honest.”
The English Premier League report was part of a four-month investigation into Smith by an unnamed investigation unit under the league’s legal department. The unit was established in 2019 to monitor “racist abuse.”
Smith says she is now being bullied online for her remarks.
“People on social media have said things like wishing I’d get glassed in the pub, or wishing that I was in Gaza. I don’t feel safe now.”
In the UK, voicing criticism against gender ideology is a serious offense.
Last year British social worker Louise Chivers was blacklisted from employment after she criticized Dylan Mulvaney, a man who claims to believe he is a woman.
Two months earlier, Surrey Police attempted to assign a probation officer to Caroline Farrow, a mother of five who was accused of “misgendering.” Police asked a court to allow them to monitor all her communications.
In 2022 Farrow was arrested in her home for criticizing gender ideology on social media, which constituted “malicious communications and harassment.” Police forced their way into Farrow’s house while she was making dinner for her children. When she asked to see a warrant, they replied, “We don’t need one.” Officers seized several electronic devices, including from her husband’s parish next door. They then brought Farrow outside where a female officer subjected her to a body search and took her to the station.
In December 2022 UK Metropolitan Police summoned James Goddard to a meeting because of a social media post which offended rainbow flags.
In July 2022 a decorated British war veteran was arrested for “malicious communications” after police received a complaint about one of his social media posts. The offending post showed a swastika made of rainbow flags, a commentary on the state-sponsored intimidation of citizens to embrace same-sex attraction and gender disorientation.
British banks, driven by gender totalitarians, are known to summarily cancel the accounts of customers who criticize gender ideology.
