The author and Director of Advocacy at campaign group Sex Matters, Dr Helen Joyce, joined Andrew Doyle on GB News at the weekend to discuss the ongoing case of FSU member Linzi Smith – which Helen describes as “one of the most sinister things I’ve seen in the five plus years I’ve been following the gross overreaches of transgender ideology”.
You can watch the full interview below.
Linzi is a 34-year-old female Newcastle United Football Club (NUFC) fan. She’s passionate about her local team, and will regularly buy tickets for home games at St. James’s Park.
But she’s now no longer able to do that. Why? Because she’s been banned from attending home games at St James’s Park until 2026 for expressing her ‘gender critical’ belief that sex is binary and immutable.
That part of the story is, in itself, bad enough. But what the FSU has also uncovered while providing Linzi with support and assistance is a shadowy intelligence unit embedded in the Premier League, whose job appears to be snooping on football fans, checking their social media accounts, and then determining if they’ve engaged in wrongthink.
In Linzi’s case, NUFC reached out to the Premier League to help investigate her and the League then tasked its spy unit with compiling a dossier on her, which it then handed over to the club. At that point, NUFC took the decision to ban her from attending games for the rest of this season and for the next two.
What emerges from this concerning report is evidence of considerable surveillance, intended to prove that Linzi, the NUFC supporter, was the owner of the X account from which the ‘offensive’ X posts were sent.
Chillingly, the report refers to Linzi as the “target”.
Attempts were made to find out where she lived. Google images were used to assess photos on her X timeline, and identify her precise location. Photos were downloaded in which she can be seen walking her dog in a park near to where she lives. The fact that she has “ties” to nearby Whitley Bay was also noted.
We think the fact that the Premier League compiled and passed on this detailed personal information about Linzi to NUFC is a flagrant breach of GDPR – and with our help she’s now submitted a complaint to the information regulator, the ICO.
We fear that what happened to Linzi could – probably already has – happened to other football fans of Premier League clubs.
If you’re a fan of a Premiership team and you’ve ever expressed lawful but non-woke views online, please click the button below to submit a Subject Access Request (SAR) to your Premier League club and to the Premier League, and find out if you’re being monitored.
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You can watch FSU General Secretary Toby Young’s interview with Linzi below.
