Overview
- A guide published by Bash Back and reported by The Times instructs members to form local cells, pick targets including MPs and party conferences, and keep hitting those targets until they stop the activities the group calls transphobic.
- The document says actions will be rarely legal and warns participants they could face charges such as criminal damage, possession of an offensive weapon and aggravated trespass.
- Operational tips include using hammers and other tools, stealing equipment to avoid tracing, cleaning or discarding items in unsurveilled residential bins, using Signal with disappearing messages and marking actions with pink paint.
- Bash Back describes itself as a nonviolent direct action group and says it does not condone harm, yet it has claimed responsibility for attacks on Wes Streeting’s constituency office, Sodexo, the Free Speech Union and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
- A UK government spokesman called the group’s rhetoric dangerous, and coverage by GB News and the Daily Mail highlighted that Bash Back formed after the Supreme Court’s ruling that defined woman by biological sex, a decision praised by some and called devastating by Stonewall and TransActual.