A steady escalation
It was an attack that stripped away the chintzy veil of victimhood that has long shielded the transgender movement, revealing well organised thuggery. Yesterday, Bash Back, the self-described “direct action project”, hacked the Free Speech Union (FSU) website and published the names of donors, alongside the sums they gave and the campaigns they supported.
The intention was unmistakable: to intimidate and punish private citizens after the FSU’s founder, Lord Young of Acton, commissioned a security report into the threat posed by the group. On Bash Back’s website, the activists make clear that more such actions are planned, welcoming visitors to “a new era of trans rage”.
Not new. The rage has been out front all along. Trans “activism” is male aggression on steroids.
Since its launch in the summer of 2025, the group has pursued a steady escalation of criminal activity. In July, Bash Back targeted the constituency office of Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, smashing windows and spraying graffiti branding him a “child killer”, after the Government restricted the prescription of puberty blocking drugs.
By autumn, vandalism had become routine. Masked activists attacked the FiLiA feminist conference, explicitly targeting a venue where women and girls were meeting to discuss male violence. The group then vandalised the headquarters of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, dubbing the statutory equalities watchdog a “hate group”.
Like that. Testosterone on a rampage.
Bash Back claims to target “organisations that promote transphobic rhetoric”, a category elastic enough to include opposition to puberty blockers for children, the defence of single-sex spaces, or a refusal to pretend that sex is a fiction. In guidance produced by the group, supporters are urged to “ensure your target can be hit repeatedly until they desist from their activities”, adding: “All of our targets have blood on their hands. We refuse to let them wash it off in peace.”
Except of course they don’t. That purported “blood” is 100% metaphorical. Saying “men are not women” does not cause bleeding.
Yet ministers continue to insist that those who adopt a transgender identity are uniquely vulnerable, even as activists operating in their name engage in criminal behaviour. Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, has warned that trans people must not be used as a “political punchbag”, cautioning against abuse or targeting on the basis of identity. This rhetoric does not merely mislead; it helps to shape the response of institutions charged with maintaining public order.
In the eyes of politicians, and those at the helm of the institutions they direct, a change of pronouns and a switch of wardrobe possess a remarkable power: they can transmute criminal behaviour into vulnerability, aggression into fragility, and organised intimidation into something approaching a cry for help. This moral alchemy sits uneasily alongside the visible reality of coordinated campaigns of criminal damage, threats and doxxing. As JK Rowling has observed, contemporary trans activism increasingly involves intimidation directed at women, yet it continues to be treated as a civil rights movement.
Trans activism puts hatred of women front and center. It has all along.
When I saw the title of the post, I thought it was going to be about Trump. Instead of one perpetrator of masculine rage violence, it was a different one!
Just one thing they have in common…
Just one, but a biggy.
The name “Bash Back” is probably meant to invoke an image of “the worm has turned,” thus assuring they continue to fit into the framework of victimhood. They’re not bashing, see — they’re bashing back. That’s totes different.