In an online Substack article published in September, Mr Linehan said that, following his arrest at the airport, officials became concerned for his health after taking his blood pressure. He said he was then taken to hospital.
The Metropolitan Police said that a man in his 50s was arrested on 1 September at Heathrow Airport and taken to hospital, adding his condition “is neither life-threatening nor life-changing” , and he was bailed “pending further investigation”.
Linehan said in the Substack post that his arrest related to three posts on X from April, on his views about challenging “a trans-identified male” in “a female-only space”.
He shared screen shots of the posts he said he was arrested for on Substack, the subscription-based online platform.
The first post, from his X feed, said: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”
He then wrote on Substack that during his police interview following the arrest, “I explained that the ‘punch’ tweet was a serious point made with a joke”, and that it was about “the height difference between men and women… and certainly not a call to violence”.
His second post from X appeared to be an aerial shot of a group of protesters in a town centre, and he called it “a photo you can smell”.
The third expressed his views, in which he said “I hate them”, referring to “misogynists and homophobes”, adding an expletive.
