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A trans-led direct action group combatting the rising tide of bigotry in the UK
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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 27d
BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET EHRC HEADQUARTERS
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From r/TransgenderUK: The BBC is putting together a hit piece against GenderGP.
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Congrats to Graham Linehan on acquiring more criminal damage convictions than we have 🥳

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scotnational.bsky.social The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d
Father Ted co-creator and anti-trans campaigner Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage after clash outside a conference last year
Anti-trans writer Graham Linehan guilty of criminal damage but cleared of harassment
www.thenational.scot
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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A reminder that the best way to support our work is to join us!
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bashback.bsky.social BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 11d
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November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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A reminder that the best way to support our work is to join us!
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bashback.bsky.social BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 11d
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November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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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

xoxo BASH BACK
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
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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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.
geraldinescott.co.uk Geri Scott @geraldinescott.co.uk · 7d
Excl: Trans people can be questioned over their bio sex & ultimately banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look, guidance submitted to ministers says.

The Times has been leaked the final EHRC guidance submitted to the govt almost three months ago.

www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look
The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash
www.thetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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BASH BACK statement on our collaboration with Prisoners for Palestine:
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
November 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
bashback.bsky.social
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

xoxo BASH BACK
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
bashback.bsky.social
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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November 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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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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sophiemolly.co.uk Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 8d
"Some parents shared deeply distressing accounts of what they have heard about the services, including stories of patients as young as 11 being continually asked about their genitals and sex life."

Parents say: “They are killing our children” share.google/zAlvx2QNLX1a...
Parents say: “They are killing our children”
Parents cry out in despair for their children at the NHS Sussex investigation into WellBN's prescription of gender dysphoria medication
share.google
November 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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It's ##TransVisibilityWeek !

Do you see us now?

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November 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Eager to support our work and get involved in trans liberation yourself?
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November 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Fuck Shabana Mahmood
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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bashback.bsky.social BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 11d
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November 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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bashback.bsky.social BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 11d
Eager to support our work and get involved in trans liberation yourself?
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November 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Eager to support our work and get involved in trans liberation yourself?
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November 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Does Phillipson really think this will make us forget about her attempts to remove trans-inclusive language from the classroom? Or her early adoption of this very guidance?

This move is political.
She is still an enemy of trans people, still not to be trusted

No second chances

xoxo BASH BACK
November 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Oh Maya, you don't need the toilet sign. We all know you're full of shit.

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November 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Tired of the petitions and marches and banner-waving protests?
Tired of seeing your rights eroded?
Want to do more to challenge transphobia in the UK?

Read our action guide, start a cell, take action.
JOIN US. BASH BACK.

https://www.transbashback.com/actionguide.pdf
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November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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This was one of the final incidents that made me give up journalism.

I pulled on every contact I had to argue that even if one supported the gender conservative position, journalists laundering their involvement in this way fundamentally undermines the entire institution of journalism.
mimmymum.bsky.social Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 16d
The ultimate twist is that 'gender critical' activist-journalists, Deborah Cohen and Hannah Barnes, reported the study to the HRA themselves!

The HRA was required to open an investigation because they’d received a report... which gave the Newsnight duo the shocking headline they desired.
BBC News Transgender treatment: Puberty blockers study under investigation Published 22 July 2019 Share The Tavistock Centre sign ByDeborah Cohen and Hannah Barnes BBC Newsnight
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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In a word: bullshit.

In a few more: the BBC has opposed or ignored almost every part of the trans liberation struggle in the UK, in part because one of their millionaire reporters is a hateful little transphobe.
And even she doesn't think they've gone far enough.

Fuck the Beeb.

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nojusticemtg.bsky.social NJ @nojusticemtg.bsky.social · 16d
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Tired of the petitions and marches and banner-waving protests?
Tired of seeing your rights eroded?
Want to do more to challenge transphobia in the UK?

Read our action guide, start a cell, take action.
JOIN US. BASH BACK.

https://www.transbashback.com/actionguide.pdf
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November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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We cannot continue to allow the NHS to get away with this. They want to ruin us. Erase us.

We must show them we cannot be ignored.

xoxo BASH BACK
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
bashback.bsky.social
We cannot continue to allow the NHS to get away with this. They want to ruin us. Erase us.

We must show them we cannot be ignored.

xoxo BASH BACK
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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sophiemolly.co.uk
"They know this is likely to cause suicides. They don’t care! We jumped through every hoop for years and we followed what the government asked of us. I’m in Surrey, her doctor is in Brighton, you can imagine what this is doing to us."

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
NHS threatens GP practice over trans care
With NHS reply – a GP practice in Brighton and Hove is under investigation for legally providing gender affirming care to trans teens
northwestbylines.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM