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A protest group has vandalised the headquarters of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in response to the human rights watchdog’s controversial interim guidance on single-sex spaces.
BASH BACK, which has taken responsibility for the vandalism, describes itself as a “trans-led direct action project focused on total transgender liberation”.
A minute-long video shared with PinkNews and also shared on social media shows members of the group approaching the the watchdog’s headquarters in London, smashing windows and spraying pink paint in an act of direct protest. The video appears to have been filmed in the early hours of Friday morning (31 October).
The EHRC’s widely-criticised interim guidance was published in April in the wake of the landmark UK Supreme Court ruling in the case of For Women Scotland vs Scottish Ministers, which decided the definition of ‘sex’ for the purposes of the 2010 Equality Act means biological sex only.
This is not the first act of vandalism BASH BACK has carried out in the name of protest.
In September, the group targeted the Brighton Centre ahead of the FiLiA Conference.
In August, BASH BACK vandalised Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s East London office. The windows were smashed and graffiti – including the words “child killer” – was sprayed on the walls. Last year, Streeting took the decision to ban puberty blockers for trans under-18s.