Millwall - known around the world as one of England's fiercest football clubs - has cancelled a feminist meeting after reportedly getting 'spooked' by transgender activists.

The South London side is said to have given in to a campaign attempting to silence people with a differing view on transgenderism.

A group of feminists hired a conference room at the club's stadium, The Den, to discuss 'how concerns raised by women are being shut down through threats, harassment and accusations of transphobia'.

A group of feminists hired a conference room at the club's stadium, The Den (pictured), to discuss 'how concerns raised by women are being shut down through threats, harassment and accusations of transphobia'

The meeting's organiser, Venice Allan (pictured), said Millwall said it had been the victim of relentless harassment and was 'really spooked'

The meeting's organiser, Venice Allan, said Millwall claimed it had been the victim of relentless harassment and was 'really spooked', according to The Times.

She added: 'I got a call from the club saying they'd never seen anything like it - constant phone calls, emails, tweets.'

The gathering was organised to express disagreement with potential changes in law that could allow people born as males to self-identify as women, something the group said might threaten women's rights.

A spokesman for the club, however, said the event was 'cancelled mutually', adding: 'We were pulled into a drama that we didn't really feel we should be part of.'

The meeting will be held instead at the House of Commons, according to a report in The Sun on Sunday.

Ms Allan, who last week quit the Labour Party because it permitted trans people to appear on all-female shortlists, told the paper: 'The irony is, it’s LGBT organisations trying to shut down meetings addressed by lesbians.'

The South London - whose fans often chant 'No one likes us' - reportedly side gave in to a campaign attempting to 'bully and silence' anyone who has a different view on transgenderism

Meanwhile the official journal of the Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Therapy Today, apologised after publishing a letter which claimed that some young people were identifying as transgender because of 'social contagion'.

The author of the letter, Stephanie Davies-Arai, said in response: 'Attempts to bully and silence are revealing only of the fact that this new dogma cannot withstand scrutiny.'

But the association said it had apologised because the letter was not compatible with a memorandum it signed on transgender conversion.