Militant Transgender Activist Group Publishes Violent 'Direct Action' Guide
The militant transgender activist group Bash Back has published a detailed 'direct action guide' that instructs members on how to arm themselves and carry out repeated attacks against MPs, organisations, and political party conferences. The group, which describes itself as a 'trans-led direct action project focused on total transgender liberation', operates within what it calls 'a new era of trans rage' while paradoxically claiming to be 'nonviolent'.
Step-by-Step Plan for Illegal Activities
Bash Back's guide lays out a comprehensive step-by-step plan for activists, explicitly warning that their actions would be 'rarely legal' and could result in serious criminal charges including criminal damage, possession of offensive weapons, and aggravated trespass. The pamphlet, emblazoned with the slogan 'smash transphobia', provides detailed advice on how activists can escape justice after carrying out attacks.
The guide encourages the formation of 'independent local cells' and instructs members to 'identify a target' and 'ensure your target can be hit repeatedly until they desist' from what the group considers 'transphobic' activities. Potential targets specifically include MPs, political organisations, and party conferences.
Equipment and Evasion Tactics
The document includes a list of recommended equipment for activists, prominently featuring hammers, and provides specific instructions on how to avoid detection. Members are advised to clean tools with alcohol to remove forensic evidence and dispose of them 'in unsurveilled residential bins'. The guide even suggests stealing tools to avoid being traced through purchases.
Front page imagery shows a masked figure wearing a hoody and holding a hammer, seemingly preparing to strike, with the phrase 'choose your weapon' written beside pictures of a hammer, balaclava, and fire extinguisher. The guide also recommends using encrypted messaging services like Signal and suggests using pink paint to link attacks back to the Bash Back group.
Origins and Previous Attacks
Bash Back was formed following last year's Supreme Court ruling that concluded the definition of a woman in the Equality Act should be based on biological sex. The group states its tactics focus on 'striking where it hurts' and has already carried out several public attacks.
The group's first public attack targeted Wes Streeting's Ilford North constituency office in July last year, where activists smashed windows and painted 'child killer' on the shop front - a reference to the Health Secretary's views on puberty blockers for children. This attack followed medical experts' advice to ban puberty blockers for children and the Cass Review of gender identity services.
Sharing a photo of the damaged office, Bash Back wrote: 'Don't want action? Don't kill kids.' The group has also targeted the offices of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and vandalised a feminist conference in Brighton last year.
Security Concerns and Investigations
A security briefing on the group, as reported by The Mail on Sunday, reveals that Bash Back has gone to extensive lengths to hide its identity, including removing internal metadata from public documents and using ultra-secure email systems. The security memo states: 'Given the first attack was on the office of a HM Gov minister, almost certainly the group responsible will be investigated by security services.'
The security document adds that activists engaged in criminal activity could be among the nearly 3,000 profiles following Bash Back across social media platforms. The paper also uncovered the group's plans to form 'cells' and plot criminal damage offences against high-profile targets.
High-Profile Targets and Legal Action
The group has identified other potential targets including the Free Speech Union (FSU) and feminist organisation Sex Matters. Earlier this year, a judge unmasked a member of the group when Autumn Repath, 22, was named by Mr Justice Bright as a 'respondent' to an injunction imposed on Bash Back after it hacked the FSU website and published lists of its donors online.
In a manifesto included in its document, Bash Back claims transgender people have been 'made the victim' by politics, healthcare, and society, adding: 'We are so tired and so angry - and while we take to the streets time and time again with our flags and our banners and our speeches, nothing seems to work.'
Public Figures Respond to Threats
Author and women's rights campaigner J.K. Rowling called for politicians last year to 'finally' take the threats of violence from activists seriously, specifically referencing Bash Back's plans to focus on MPs' offices. Rowling wrote on X: 'Who knows, now that trans activists aren't only stalking, harassing, doxxing, threatening and physically assaulting women, our politicians might finally take the violence that's such a key feature of this totalitarian movement seriously.'
Bash Back has previously stated: 'We take action to stand up for ourselves in a country that is increasingly hostile to trans people, because the traditional modes of protest are not working due to the sheer amount of money from billionaires like Rowling funnelled into opposition to our rights and freedoms. We never go out of our way to cause harm to any human being and discourage and condemn actions that do so.'
The group has warned potential targets: 'If you think we're done, you've got another thing coming. MP or PM, you've seen us once, we'll see you again.' The Daily Mail has contacted both Bash Back and the Government for comment regarding these developments.
