Bash Back bashes again.

Radical trans-led direct action group Bash Back targeted the headquarters of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in London this morning, amid growing tensions over the Commission’s controversial interim guidance on single-sex spaces.

The group, which gained notoriety earlier this month for vandalising the Brighton Centre ahead of the FiLiA feminist conference, posted a statement on social media platform BlueSky before posting videos and photographs from this morning. The statement read: “The EHRC is a hate group. This month, the Good Law Project forced the EHRC to dump their transphobic ‘interim guidance’.

“Last week, six human rights groups demanded the EHRC have their A-status revoked due to an ‘obsessive campaign to strip trans people of our rights’.

Of course there is no such campaign. Nobody wants to strip trans people of their rights. The problem is that many “activists” demand new and peculiar “rights” that are not rights at all. There is no broad sweeping right to be endorsed or validated as something you’re not. There’s no right to force other people to play along with anyone’s fantasies or games of let’s pretend. Ironically, trying to force people to endorse lies about the ontology of trans people is a violation of rights. No we don’t have to lie for you and no we’re not going to. If it were 1943 and you were the French Resistance we would, but it’s not and you’re not, so we don’t and we’re not.

The Bash Back protest comes in response to guidance issued by the EHRC earlier this year, which advised that trans individuals could be excluded from single-sex spaces such as toilets and changing rooms based on their biological sex.

Men want to be allowed to invade women’s toilets and changing rooms, so they smash up the front of a building. We are all duly impressed.