@bashback.bsky.social
A trans-led direct action group combatting the rising tide of bigotry transbashback.com
"Why don't you just campaign to reform the system?"
When we are destined to be ignored, what other options do we really have?
![Article thumbnail from (🤮) The Telegraph (🤮), written by Tom Harris, reading: "Social-justice fanatics cannot understand that the law is for them, too." With the subtitle "Vandalism is not protest, it is violent crminal [sic] intimidation"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j6ed3zx5nlnatz3xbvc6mfkd/bafkreibn3ld6lfjskdnuymoj2yccijyvfv7g7wk6uyg22u4kjorj2n7rmm@jpeg)
Article thumbnail from (🤮) The Telegraph (🤮), written by Tom Harris, reading: "Social-justice fanatics cannot understand that the law is for them, too." With the subtitle "Vandalism is not protest, it is violent crminal [sic] intimidation"
a caption from the article reading "Health Secretary Wes Streeting, whose constituency office was recently vandalised. An organisation named Trans Bash Back claimed responsibility"
Hi Tom! Thanks for the publicity!
We debated debunking all of your spurious claims, but realized hack Telegraph columnists really aren't worth our time.
Instead we'll just correct you on one little thing:
The name is BASH BACK - all caps.
Remember it. You'll be seeing a lot more of us soon <3
When we took action against Wes it was because of the trans blood on his hands, but there’s a variety of reasons to loathe him, not least of all his culpability in genocide
Whether against trans people or Palestinians, Wes Streeting is a CHILD KILLER
Solidarity with the PYM’s siege on Labour.
🏳️⚧️🤝🇵🇸
When I asked one of the protestors about the damage to Wes' office.
One of them gave me the answer that Labour is already complicit in Israel's war crimes so has no legs to stand on when complaining about the damage to the glass.
And I was thinking that their response was absolutely spot on.
100,000+ people took to the streets of London for Trans Pride 2025 (we were there, did you see us?), and the MPs and media said nothing.
A few take action and they start to notice.
You, too, can take the fight into your hands. Start a cell. Form a collective. BASH BACK
Join us: transbashback.com
Trans people have spent so long being outcast, being afraid. But time and again we have proven, through direct and revolutionary action, that we are capable of fighting back.
From Compton's Cafeteria in 1966, through Stonewall and the AIDS crisis to now:
WE KEEP US SAFE
WE WILL FREE OURSELVES
Streeting is weaponizing the language of harm to undermine those challenging his endorsement of stochastic terrorism and institution of political violence. His ban on puberty blockers is the most significant attack on transgender bodily autonomy in decades.
END THE VIOLENCE
OVERTURN THE BLOCKERS BAN
We are a non-violent organization, and we would never threaten harm against any living creature.
Let us be very clear: Wes Streeting has instituted political violence through conversion therapy, segregated spaces, police raids and restrictions on bodily autonomy.
Not broken windows, ruined lives.
Wes Streeting is scared.
He refuses to acknowledge our fear, day in, day out, walking down streets, using public toilets, accessing the basic healthcare services he has made even more humiliating and terrifying.
His fear is a broken window and a bit of paint. Ours is life or death.
Second image courtesy of @whatthetrans.com
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A photograph of the front of Wes Streeting's office in Ilford. there is pink paint on the window, reading CHILD KILLER, although a car is parked in front of it, and white paper on one side barely hiding a puncture in the glass. Wes' name is also covered in pink paint on the email at the bottom of the red banner-style sign
A different angle of Streeting's office, showing the CHILD KILLER text more visibly. Three punctures with spider-fractures are visible across the front of the office windows.
JUSTICE FOR TRANS YOUTH On July 31st, a group of activists representing BASH BACK took action against Wes Streeting's office in Ilford, in response to his continued abuse of trans people in the medical system, and attempts to cover up the suicides of trans young people under his watch as Health Secretary. In the months since the puberty blockers ban, we have seen huge backpedals in the healthcare rights afforded to trans people - and young people especially - in an NHS system that was never kind to us in the first place. Under Streeting's rule, GPs have been banned from conducting blood tests on trans patients accessing HRT, and trans people have been banned from accessing hospital wards that fit their gender, leading necessarily to poorer quality of care across the board. Streeting, along with NHS England, the EHRC, and Hillary Cass, have paved the way for state-mandated conversion therapy, which has since led to the Department of Education's proposed introduction of a "Section 28" style bill, preventing discussion of transness in the classroom. It is clear now that Wes Streeting and the Labour government intend to erase trans people from public life, and will go out of their way to do so, no matter how many bodies lay in their path.
A poster on a black paper textured background, with the logo (an inverted pink triangle with "trans symbol" spokes at each corner, sat between "Bash" and "back" WHEN TRANS LIVES ARE UNDER ATTACK, WHAT DO WE DO? STAND UP BASH BACK
Our statement on the actions at Wes Streeting's office last night.
We refuse to sit and watch as trans young people have their healthcare stripped from them. We refuse to allow Streeting to cover up their suicides. We refuse to endure the violence and humiliation. They will have to go through us.
Don't want action? Don't kill kids.
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