A young mother has recently been banned from her local bar after a complaint was made that the words on her black T-shirt discriminated against transgender people. This is the latest in the strange fight going on between feminists and transgender campaigners and the battleground this time was the Five Clouds Tap and Bottle in the market town of Macclesfield.

Rebekah Wershbale has now said that she was "stunned" when a barwoman at the venue told her that she was banned because of the definition of "human female" that was written on her shirt.

She told The Daily Mail: "She told me that the T-shirt I was wearing was upsetting people because it was transphobic and not inclusive, so I was barred."

She continued: "What she meant was that I was somehow offending men who say they are women because my T-shirt did not include them in the definition of a woman. There aren’t even any transgender staff or patrons at the pub. It’s crackers."

Wershbale is a proud supporter of the feminist group Fair Play For Women, which is opposed to the government's consultation to reform the existing Gender Recognition Act (GRA). This proposed change to the law would allow people to be able to self-identify as the gender that they believe they are without a proper medical diagnosis.

Feminists and transgender campaigners have since been engaged in a furious battle with the feminists afraid a change in the law will hurt the safety and privacy of women.

Wershbale and her girlfriend had gone to their local bar to play board games on December 30 where she had been a regular patron for the past three years. The 34-year-old was, however, surprised to be approached by a staff member who had a complaint.

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She recalled that nothing strange had happened that entire night except when she spoke to another patron at the bar, a gay man called Mika Johnson. Wershbale said: "I sat down next to him and asked him how he was. He said, 'I don’t want to talk to you to be honest — please leave me alone'. 'So I said OK and left it'."

Only thirty minutes later, a bar staff member named Heather approached Wershbale's table and told her that she would no longer be welcome at the bar. She said: "Heather said I’d been upsetting people and Mika was crying."

Wershbale continued: "She told me that the way I talk about radical feminism was a problem and said: 'The T-shirt you’re wearing is upsetting and not inclusive.' I replied that it simply said the dictionary definition of being a woman – how can it be offensive? She mumbled a bit about it being transphobic and that I had been transphobic previously."

She said: "She then said I was barred and that she had been nominated by the other bar staff to come to tell me that. I asked if she thought it was troubling that I was being removed from my own local because I was wearing a feminist T-shirt that had upset a gay man. But she just repeated I wasn’t being inclusive."

On the very same day Johnson posted on Twitter about the emotional distress he felt. He wrote: "When you’re trying to relax in your fave pub and there is a TERF [trans exclusionary radical feminist] wearing an anti-trans T-shirt… It’s disgusting and I’m so upset by it."

The owner of the bar Tom Lewis confirmed that Wershbale had been ordered to leave the premises after the complaint but said that there had been a series of incidents before where she had upset staff and other customers by challenging their views on men identifying as women.

Tory MP David Davies said: "Terrifyingly this insidious creep of open debate no longer being tolerated and freedom of speech being suppressed is now spreading from our university campuses to the streets of our historic market towns. It is a very sad day when a woman is barred from her pub for wearing a T-shirt that states the obvious because it might offend transgender people."