EXCLUSIVE British female singer, 36, is arrested by police and quizzed over comments she made on GB News about ‘trans-rights extremists’ – weeks after she was ‘cancelled by the music industry for her gender-critical views’

A female singer was arrested by police and quizzed over comments she made on GB News about ‘trans-right extremists’ weeks after she was ‘cancelled by the music industry for her gender-critical views.

Louise Distras, 36, revealed on social media she was arrested on Saturday, interviewed under caution and released without charge after five hours in custody.

Officers told her no action would be taken against her as she hadn’t committed any crimes, she added.

The singer-songwriter has recently gone public to reveal she has been ‘cancelled’ by music industry bosses for denying that transwomen are women.

Ms Distras, who lives in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, said she was washing her hair in the shower when police came unannounced to arrest her.

Louise Distras, 36, revealed on social media she was arrested on Saturday, interviewed under caution and released without charge after five hours in custody

The singer-songwriter has recently gone public to reveal she has been ‘cancelled’ by music industry bosses for denying that transwomen are women

‘I was naked except for a towel and still had flippin shampoo in my hair,’ she commented.

She was forced to endure the indignity of getting dressed in front of a police officer with a bodycam like a ‘terrorist.’

Once in the custody of West Yorkshire Police she was photographed and had DNA swabs and fingerprints taken.

Describing her ordeal as an ‘absolute ******* farce,’ she revealed that she planned to take legal action as a result of her arrest ordeal.

When asked for a comment, a West Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said: ‘In accordance with College of Policing guidelines, we neither confirm nor deny if names are put to us in relation to an arrest.’

In her post on X, which has had more than 400,000 views, Ms Distras claimed she had been ‘false reported’ to police and then questioned about her comments on GB News last month in an interview with presenter Andrew Doyle.

She said police also questioned her about similar comments made in a speech at a Let Women Speak event in Leeds last month.

Speaking on GB News, she said: ‘Everything in my life starts with me being a woman and being an adult human female right, so I stated this radical biological fact in an interview in May this year and since then the music industry has just shut its doors on me. 

‘The platforms that championed me have now denounced me as a Nazi and as a transphobe, I’m being threatened by trans-rights extremists, one of them tracked down my address and turned up at my home. I had to go to court and get an injunction. 

‘There is an ongoing police investigation.’

She said an appeal to her booking agency Midnight Mango for security at her gigs fell on deaf ears and she was told ‘our position as a company is clear, transwomen are women and if you continue to publicly deny that transwomen are women your position will have a detrimental effect on your musical career.’

The post Louise Distras put on X, formerly twitter,  about being arrested by police following her comments

Ms Distras, who lives in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, said she was washing her hair in the shower when police came unannounced to arrest her

Describing her ordeal as an ‘absolute ******* farce,’ she revealed that she planned to take legal action as a result of her arrest ordeal

Ms Distras said she was ‘fired’ by the agency and her material was also taken off music sites Big Cartel and Band Camp because she expressed opinions deemed unacceptable.

She said: ‘I feel what’s left of the industry is now being kicked to death by these intolerant activists who are shutting down and threatening anybody who dares to disagree with them or who won’t bow down to these insane demands of ideological compliance’.

Adding that the situation was ‘ridiculous’ as the ‘music industry is supposed to be built on freedom of expression.’

She made similar comments to the Leeds rally, but also told the crowd of onlookers: ‘If men in dresses want to claim to be women then women are always going to put up a fight to defend our hard won rights, of course we are.

‘Everything in my life starts with me being a woman and a woman is an adult human female.’

West Yorkshire Police were also at the centre of a row in August when officers arrested an autistic 16-year-old girl from Leeds after saying a ‘female officer looked like her lesbian nana.’ 

She was dragged away screaming in the early hours of the morning for a ‘homophobic public order offence.’

Police took no action against the teenager.

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