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Two of the most at risk prisoners hunger striking right now are trans, and yet we have seen very few of the queer news sites that have covered our actions bring up the hunger strikers or their reasons for action.
Instead they've been awash with Sandie Peggy discourse.
Where is the solidarity?

TODAY IS DAY 40 OF HUNGER STRIKE.
5 PRISONERS HAVE BEEN HOSPITALISED.
DOCTORS HAVE SAID THERE IS A RISK OF DEATH.

If you have a platform SPEAK UP.
We know we have journalists and influencers following us. USE YOUR AUDIENCE, get them to contact people, join actions, fight for their lives.

This is one struggle. One fight. They are now at risk of death. Our hearts burn as the actionists starve.
We must act, to save them, to oppose the state that has made us all victims.

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This is one struggle. One fight. They are now at risk of death. Our hearts burn as the actionists starve.
We must act, to save them, to oppose the state that has made us all victims.

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Trans liberation is just one of the struggles present in the fight against a fascist state. As other protesters starve to save themselves, two of whom are trans, we must stand together.
What have you done for the hunger strikers? Could you take actions that could save a life?

Our comrades, our hunger strikers, have been starving for 5 weeks in protest of the state's oppression of Palestinian activists and continued participation in Israeli apartheid and genocide.
If you have not done anything to support them, start now.

#SupportTheHungerStrikers

These people care for nothing - not children, not victims of sexual violence, nothing. They are pure hate.

In the last few days, Girl Guides and the Women's Institute have caved to legal pressure and banned trans women.

This is yet more proof that polite lobbying and peaceful protest will not save us.
We must make ourselves impossible to ignore.

Join us. Take action. BASH BACK.

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In the last few days, Girl Guides and the Women's Institute have caved to legal pressure and banned trans women.

This is yet more proof that polite lobbying and peaceful protest will not save us.
We must make ourselves impossible to ignore.

Join us. Take action. BASH BACK.

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True justice starts with action.
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Fuck David Lammy. Removing juries denies the ability for charged protesters to stand their ground and speak to ordinary people about their motivations.
This will disproportionately affect us as trans people standing up for our existence.
We cannot trust the law. We only have us.

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This is fantastic. Transphobic MPs like Zeichner must be met with shame, if not direct action. For all to see.

Thank you to TLC for bringing this to our attention.

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Should the EHRC continue in its abuse against trans people, well, they know what to expect.

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That Kishwer Falkner was able to complete a term as chair of the EHRC, and not be made to resign in shame, shows how transphobic this country is.
She turned the EHRC into a weapon against trans people, and nobody with any power did a thing.

Mary-Ann Stephenson, our eyes are on you.

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Kishwer Falkner's term as Chair of the EHRC, a term characterized by her willingness to use that vital guardian of the human rights of the vulnerable to wage war on trans people, ends today. THREAD

Emergency Demo, at 6:30PM Thursday 4th December, Queen's Building, Potter St, Worksop S80 2BZ

Bassetlaw Reform Group, under the control of Cllr Fraser McFarland, has brought forward a motion to implement the FWS Supreme Court judgement called the "Defending Women's Privacy, Dignity and Safety. 🤦‍♀️ Consequently, an impromptu demo has been called for the 4th of December

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SEEN needs to spell out how astonishingly improper this is. A Gender Critical activist ‘journalist’ openly admits he was “invited to address the judge” in a criminal trial, even though he says himself he “doesn’t technically have standing”. This should NEVER happen in court.

From r/TransgenderUK: The BBC is putting together a hit piece against GenderGP.

Congrats to Graham Linehan on acquiring more criminal damage convictions than we have 🥳

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A reminder that the best way to support our work is to join us!
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A reminder that the best way to support our work is to join us!
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Watch the video of a wonderful comrade reading our statement here: www.instagram.com/reel/DRUiOTT...

On 28th July, Toni Asik - a trans man - died behind these walls after months of abuse, harassment, and discrimination from staff representing HMP Bronzefield and Sodexo. He was segregated, refused healthcare checkups despite clear suicidal thoughts and mental ill health, and routinely abused by guards for his gender identity- this along with the subtler, nascent abuse that results from the bondage and incarceration of trans people, from egregious deadnaming and misgendering, to the medical neglect that we come to expect in society. That same week, another trans prisoner in Bronzefield attempted suicide by throwing himself off of a catwalk. We are BASH BACK, a trans-led direct-action group fighting for total transgender liberation, and on the 30th August we took action against Sodexo’s office in Leeds, smashing their windows and spraying their walls. In black paint across their brickwork a simple message: “SODEXO KILLED TONI ASIK”. Four simple words that hammer home the thing everyone knew. No death in prison is voluntary, all have been carried out, systemically, by the state and the private companies they get to do the dirty work. Every death behind those walls is a murder, the perpetrators of which will likely never be held to account.

We took action against Sodexo so that just for the moment they would know what they did, and that for once Toni’s name, a name they often refused to speak, would be on display for all to see.

Many of the Prisoners for Palestine - our prisoners (though they are all our prisoners so long as we continue the abolitionist struggle) - knew Toni, they knew his light and his joy, they shared time with him in the gym, spoke with him, felt his presence. We did not, cannot have. We just knew he lived, and that was enough for us. It was not enough for Sodexo.  But not much has been, in truth. Many of the prisoners are 15 days into an open-ended hunger strike, and it took 10 days of starvation for Sodexo to even recognise it as active. It took 27 days of starvation and thousands of phonecalls from activists like yourselves before T. Hoxha’s basic demands were met. But then what should we expect from a state which would rather imprison activists than end a genocide? What still should we expect from a state which goes out of its way to criminalise transness through puberty blockers bans?

Many of our prisoners are trans themselves, subject to similar abuses and discrimination to that which Toni experienced - nearly always from staff, rarely ever from their fellow prisoners - and with the UK’s human rights advisor, the EHRC, pushing for further segregation of trans people, those conditions only threaten to get worse. For our part, we have already taken action against the EHRC, but the fight for liberation comes through more than just action, it is in resilience, refusal, and protest at the level of your body. Just as our hunger strikers are doing. Just as every trans prisoner does when they refuse to closet, refuse to hear any other name but their own, when we refuse to be anything other than ourselves. Because our bodies are the one things they cannot take away. And so we are immensely proud to be here today - if only in voice - with Prisoners for Palestine, our comrades both in and outside prison walls, to demand freedom, a fair trial, and justice - REAL JUSTICE - for those brave enough to take on the war machine that has killed so many, and imprisoned so many more. So proud to be with those putting their bodies on the line for liberation. Our struggles are linked by the shared enemy of state and colonialism, both here and in so-called Israel, which has made us all subjects

As direct actionists ourselves we are so proud to have comrades in the P4P prisoners, to stand defiant against Sodexo, and the draconian weaponisation of anti-terror legislation designed to deter resistance. To Yasmin Cooper Security Manager for Sodexo Justice Services, responsible for the use of anti-terror powers against P4P prisoners, and ultimately responsible for the conditions that killed Toni, we will say this as bluntly as possible: you are an enemy of humanity, you are an enemy of justice, you are a murderer and a kidnapper, doing the dirty work for a genocidal state, and we will not rest until you face justice for what you have done to our prisoners, to Toni, to the absurd number of captives in your overcrowded jails. I hope you sleep well at night, because we will not rest until justice is felt, our trans community is liberated, our prisoners are freed, and a sun rises over a free Palestine.

In solidarity and rage, forever

UNTIL ALL ARE FREE

BASH BACK’s statement outside of HMP Bronzefield on 15th November, which was read by a wonderful comrade. While for our own anonymity we couldn’t be there in person, it was an honour to deliver this statement and have it heard by our prisoners.

UNTIL ALL ARE FREE

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This was always how it was going to be. The EHRC is a hate group, attempting to make it legal to discriminate against people based on how they look. This has nothing to do with protecting women and everything to do with hate. We will not take this sitting down. We must resist.

We must BASH BACK.

We are proud to be collaborating with @Prisoners4Palestine, the prisoner-led collective that represents those who have been detained by the British state in their struggle for Palestinian liberation. We have signed their open letter in support of the ongoing hunger strike, and share their stated goals: • Shut down Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, with which the UK closely collaborates; • End the proscription of Palestine Action; • End censorship in prisons; • Release illegal detainees on immediate bail; • The right to a fair trial, by releasing all documents relevant to their cases, including those documenting meetings between British and Israeli state officials, the British police, the attorney general, and Elbit Systems representatives.

The struggle for Palestinian liberation and political prisoners is one we share as trans people. As state repression of political dissent against genocide and collaboration escalates, the tools of the state come down ever harder on all those who are criminalised, vilified, and marginalised. We remember Toni Asik, a victim of the transphobic abuses of Sodexo staff in HMP Bronzefield, where the first hunger strikers are incarcerated. When we took action against Sodexo in Leeds, we did so to remember him, and impose his memory on the system that killed him. Today (20th November) marks Trans Day of Remembrance, but it is also a day, as every day, of resistance. As the ever more authoritarian British state abuses and kills its captives with impunity, we ask: what would you do? We do as we must: we fight.

As direct actionists ourselves, we share a kinship with the Prisoners for Palestine, brave opponents to the authoritarian wave that has captured the UK, now putting their bodies on the line to demand the freedom they always deserved. We recognise the twin threat posed by genocidal collaboration and prisoner abuse, which a threat to everyone’s liberation. BASH BACK will continue to fight, in solidarity and rage, against the state and private companies that exclude us, torture us, imprison us, and abuse us. For true liberation. For all of us. From the streets and to the cells. From the river to the sea. Solidarity with Prisoners For Palestine.

Shut Down Elbit Systems Justice for Our Prisoners Justice for Palestine UNTIL ALL ARE FREE xoxo BASH BACK

BASH BACK statement on our collaboration with Prisoners for Palestine:

On #TransDayOfRemembrance, we remember Toni Asik, murdered by Yasmin Cooper and Sodexo in HMP Bronzefield on 28/07/25.

Today we remember all trans people who have been made victims of colonialism and state violence

Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living

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So proud to have publicly signed
Prisoners for Palestine's open letter, in solidarity with the prisoners’ open-ended hunger strike.

This is day 19 of their starvation against state oppression.

Read their demands below.

One struggle, one fight. Until all are free.
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When we labelled Wes Streeting a "CHILD KILLER" we weren't exaggerating.

Parents agree: since Streeting's blockers ban, NHS Sussex has been abusing and killing children.

Thank you to @sophiemolly.co.uk for this harrowing report.

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