Trans-led direct action group Bash Back targets HQ of Equality and Human Rights Commission

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'.

"Despite this - and despite international outrage - they still intend to push their guidance (segregating trans people out of all single-sex spaces) to government.

"We took action against the EHRC's London office to send a clear message: we will not obey their 'guidance'."

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.

Critics, including LGBTQ+ organisations and human rights advocates, have condemned the guidance as discriminatory and harmful. The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights warned that the UK’s approach could lead to widespread exclusion of trans people from public life.