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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 4h

FILIA WAS JUST THE START

AS TRANS YOUTH TAKE THEIR OWN LIVES, AS WE FACE ABUSE BY POLICE, PRISONS AND HEALTHCARE SERVICES, AS WE FIGHT FOR OUR SAFETY AND DIGNITY, WE DEMAND NOTHING SHORT OF TOTAL LIBERATION.

BASH BACK TOOK ACTION AGAINST FILIA BECAUSE IT PLAYED HOST TO TRANSPHOBIA AND PLATFORMED NUMEROUS HATE GROUPS.

WE ARE NOT FINISHED.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST THOSE ORGANISATIONS WHO PROMOTE TRANSPHOBIA, CHAMPION HATE AND IMPLEMENT SEGREGATIONIST POLICIES.

OUR TARGETS HAVE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS. WE REFUSE TO LET THEM WASH IT OFF IN PEACE.
WELCOME TO A NEW ERA OF TRANS RAGE.

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the promo Jules xoxo

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 1d

OUR STATEMENT ON THE ACTION AGAINST FILIA

TERFS GATHER EVERY YEAR TO GLOAT ABOUT ATTACKS ON BODILY AUTONOMY AND TRANS PEOPLE'S SAFETY

THIS YEAR, WHEN WE FACE THE GREATEST ATTACKS ON OUR FREEDOMS, WE WILL NOT ALLOW THEM THE PRIVILEGE

STATEMENT ON BASH BACK ACTION AGAINST FILIA (9/10/25)

LAST NIGHT, ACTIONISTS FROM BASH BACK TOOK ACTION AGAINST THE BRIGHTON CENTRE, VENUE OF THE FILIA CONFERENCE, WHICH PLAYS HOST TO SOME OF THE MOST VICIOUS TRANSPHOBIA IN POP POLITICS.

FILIA'S SPEAKERS THIS YEAR INCLUDE BIGOT-PROVOCATEURS JULIE BINDEL, LGB ALLIANCE AND "SCOTTISH LESBIANS" - A GROUP BEHIND THE SEGREGATIONIST 2025 SUPREME COURT RULING.
THEIR VILE AND HATEFUL RHETORIC LEADS TO THE SAME KIND OF DISCRIMINATORY VIOLENCE THAT KILLS HUNDREDS OF TRANS PEOPLE EVERY
YEAR.
THESE BIGOTS HAVE OUR BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS. THEY USE THIS CONFERENCE TO GLOAT. THIS YEAR, WE WILL NOT LET THEM.

STATEMENT ON BASH BACK ACTION AGAINST FILIA (CONT.)

BASH BACK SEES FILIA AS NEITHER RADICAL NOR FEMINIST, SPREADING MISOGYNIST HATRED BACKED BY BOTH BILLIONAIRES AND THE STATE.

LIKE THE SUFFRAGETTES AND RADICAL QUEERS BEFORE US, THAT THE ONLY PATH TOWARD LIBERATION IS THROUGH ACTION.

TO THE ORGANISERS OF FILIA WE SAY THIS:

IF YOU EXPECT TO CONTINUE IN YOUR TRADE OF TRANSPHOBIC HATE, IF YOU EXPECT TO CONTINUE IN YOUR QUEERBASHING AND TRANSMISOGYNY AND CALL IT "FEMINISM" THEN EXPECT RESISTANCE, EXPECT RETALIATION, EXPECT US.

PAINT WASHES OFF. BLOOD NEVER DOES.

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET FiLiA ANTI-TRANS CONFERENCE

The conference, whose alumni include J.K. Rowling, this year hosts hate groups LGBAlliance and Transgender Trend, along with the director of Scottish Lesbians, one of the groups responsible for April's segregationist Supreme Court ruling.

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 3d

IT IS TWO YEARS SINCE THE AL-AQSA FLOOD AND ISRAEL'S ACCELERATION OF ITS DECADES-LONG GENOCIDE AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS
WE ARE REMINDED THAT WE ARE ENGAGED IN AN INTERSECTIONAL STRUGGLE, THAT TRANS AND PALESTINIAN LIBERATION ARE A UNITED FRONT AGAINST COLONIALISM
WE WILL NOT REST
UNTIL ALL ARE FREE

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 27d

WE ARE TARRED AS FREAKS AND KILLERS, WHILE FASCISTS WALK THE STREETS PROUDLY CALLING FOR RACIAL VIOLENCE.
BUT BECAUSE WE DEMAND LIBERATION, BECAUSE WE DEMAND CHANGE, BECAUSE WE DEMAND AUTONOMY, THE MEDIA SHUNS US.

AS THE WORLD WATCHES THE FASCISTS BURY THEIR DEAD, WE ARE LEFT TO DIE IN THE DARK

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 7d

This is what your state thinks of you. This is what your government demands. Total compliance no matter how wrong the facts are, no matter how true your lived experience is.
This is how they manipulate & silence our voices.
Refuse their demands. Be louder than ever. Fight for your life. BASH BACK.

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 7d

This is what your state thinks of you. This is what your government demands. Total compliance no matter how wrong the facts are, no matter how true your lived experience is.
This is how they manipulate & silence our voices.
Refuse their demands. Be louder than ever. Fight for your life. BASH BACK.

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 7d

This is RIDICULOUS. Rather than actually challenging transphobia in his constituency or on a national level, a sitting Labour MP - Graham Stringer of Blackley and Middleton South - has instead demanded a trans constituent condemn our actions while parroting Cass' unscientific bigotry.

SHAME

melody-fair.bsky.social @melody-fair.bsky.social · 8d

This is the reply I received from Stringer. It demanded I condemn you without actually naming you.

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 8d

Would appreciate more details on this. Email us: [email protected]

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 10d

It seems some TERFs have seen our action guide and are making *quite* a fuss!! Even Linehan's seen it (doesn't he have divorce proceedings to attend?)!
They're tagging the Met Police, Police Scotland, MI6, and, gosh even the FBI!

Seems we've really struck a nerve eh? Want to help? transbashback.com

A post by Graham Linehan (lol) on X, quote tweeting a post by Stuart Macintosh reading "This is being promoted by [REDACTED]on Bluesky. It's a document advising on who to target with criminal damage and harassment. Advises on how to carry offensive weapons, avoid detection, etc. The example in the document is Wes Streeting's constituency office."
Linehan's quote reads "People need to think of trans activism as a form of domestic terrorism."

post by FOF (@FactologyVs) on X reading "@FBI @FBIDirectorKash please investigate this radical transtifa domestic terrorists and make sure there is no branch or sleeper cells in the U.S. they're playing any attack on women's rights groups. transbashback.com/actionguide.pdf"

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 10d

If it's any consolation, internal conversations within BASH BACK have found Glinner "too pathetic to target"

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 10d

It seems some TERFs have seen our action guide and are making *quite* a fuss!! Even Linehan's seen it (doesn't he have divorce proceedings to attend?)!
They're tagging the Met Police, Police Scotland, MI6, and, gosh even the FBI!

Seems we've really struck a nerve eh? Want to help? transbashback.com

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 11d

Want to take action with BASH BACK?

Follow our action guide at: www.transbashback.com/actionguide....

Or contact us at: [email protected]

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 16d

Oh Wes, will you ever learn? If you find us unpleasant now, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Are *you* an unpleasant transsexual?
Join us: transbashback.com

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 17d

🚨 BREAKING | Wes Streeting confirms Labour is actively working to BAN trans women AND trans men from female spaces, describing their presence as "unpleasant".

Streeting confirmed to MumsNet that Labour aims to exclude ALL trans people from single-sex spaces.

(Via MumsNet)

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 19d

HELP US SMASH THE CIS-TEM

transbashback.com

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 19d

WE TARGETED WES' OFFICE BECAUSE OF HIS ABUSE OF THE NHS TO HARM TRANS YOUTH
HIS WORDS MEAN NOTHING.

THESE ARE OUR "FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS". ACCOUNTS MARKED IN VIOLENCE AND NEGLECT AND SUICIDE.

NO FORGIVENESS. ONLY RAGE.
NO MORE SEGREGATION. ONLY LIBERATION.
NO MORE BROKEN HEARTS.
ONLY BROKEN WINDOWS.

Attitude Magazine @attitudemag.bsky.social · 20d

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has vowed to ensure the safety of LGBTQ+ patients in the NHS after hearing “firsthand” trans harassment accounts.
www.attitude.co.uk/news/wes-str...

Wes Streeting on issues faced by LGBTQ+ patients in NHS - highlighting ‘firsthand’ accounts of trans harassment

Health Secretary Streeting has pledged to tackle inequalities in LGBTQ+ healthcare, speaking to attendees at the LGBTQ+ NHS conference.

www.attitude.co.uk

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 19d

WE TARGETED WES' OFFICE BECAUSE OF HIS ABUSE OF THE NHS TO HARM TRANS YOUTH
HIS WORDS MEAN NOTHING.

THESE ARE OUR "FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS". ACCOUNTS MARKED IN VIOLENCE AND NEGLECT AND SUICIDE.

NO FORGIVENESS. ONLY RAGE.
NO MORE SEGREGATION. ONLY LIBERATION.
NO MORE BROKEN HEARTS.
ONLY BROKEN WINDOWS.

Attitude Magazine @attitudemag.bsky.social · 20d

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has vowed to ensure the safety of LGBTQ+ patients in the NHS after hearing “firsthand” trans harassment accounts.
www.attitude.co.uk/news/wes-str...

Wes Streeting on issues faced by LGBTQ+ patients in NHS - highlighting ‘firsthand’ accounts of trans harassment

Health Secretary Streeting has pledged to tackle inequalities in LGBTQ+ healthcare, speaking to attendees at the LGBTQ+ NHS conference.

www.attitude.co.uk

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 25d

THEY ONLY GAVE US RIGHTS WHEN WE GAVE THEM RIOTS. NOTHING THE STATE PROVIDES WILL BE GOOD ENOUGH, NOR WILL IT WASH THE BLOOD FROM THEIR HANDS.

THE FUTURE OF TRANS LIBERATION, AS THE PAST, IS RAGE.

JOIN US. START A CELL. DEMAND BETTER. BASH BACK.

www.transbashback.com

BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 25d

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE. NO AMOUNT OF PERFORMATIVE PANDERING WILL SAVE A CAREER INKED IN TRANS BLOOD.

WE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE.

ONCE A CHILD KILLER ALWAYS A CHILD KILLER.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 26d

Sensing Starmer's departure, and aware his performative hatred of trans people has fatally harmed his own ambition to become PM, he utters some warm words - and commits less than £3 per person to tackle the problem his bigotry helped to create. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 23d

TRANS ERASURE MUST BE COMBATTED WITH ACTION

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 25d

THEY ONLY GAVE US RIGHTS WHEN WE GAVE THEM RIOTS. NOTHING THE STATE PROVIDES WILL BE GOOD ENOUGH, NOR WILL IT WASH THE BLOOD FROM THEIR HANDS.

THE FUTURE OF TRANS LIBERATION, AS THE PAST, IS RAGE.

JOIN US. START A CELL. DEMAND BETTER. BASH BACK.

www.transbashback.com

BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 25d

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE. NO AMOUNT OF PERFORMATIVE PANDERING WILL SAVE A CAREER INKED IN TRANS BLOOD.

WE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE.

ONCE A CHILD KILLER ALWAYS A CHILD KILLER.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 26d

Sensing Starmer's departure, and aware his performative hatred of trans people has fatally harmed his own ambition to become PM, he utters some warm words - and commits less than £3 per person to tackle the problem his bigotry helped to create. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 25d

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE. NO AMOUNT OF PERFORMATIVE PANDERING WILL SAVE A CAREER INKED IN TRANS BLOOD.

WE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE.

ONCE A CHILD KILLER ALWAYS A CHILD KILLER.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 26d

Sensing Starmer's departure, and aware his performative hatred of trans people has fatally harmed his own ambition to become PM, he utters some warm words - and commits less than £3 per person to tackle the problem his bigotry helped to create. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

‘Unacceptable’ waiting list of up to eight years for NHS gender care

Exclusive: ‘This breaks my heart,’ says minister Wes Streeting as waiting list tops 42,000

www.independent.co.uk

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 25d

WE TOOK ACTION IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT STREETING HIMSELF IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EIGHT-YEAR WAITING LISTS HE CLAIMS TO CARE SO MUCH ABOUT.

WE REFUSE TO NEGOTIATE WITH PEOPLE WHO PUT THEIR CAREERS BEFORE OUR LIVES.

WE DONT SETTLE FOR SECOND BEST, WE DEMAND IT ALL.

WE BASH BACK

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · Aug 1

Our statement on the actions at Wes Streeting's office last night.

We refuse to sit and watch as trans young people have their healthcare stripped from them. We refuse to allow Streeting to cover up their suicides. We refuse to endure the violence and humiliation. They will have to go through us.

A photograph of the front of Wes Streeting's office in Ilford. there is pink paint on the window, reading CHILD KILLER, although a car is parked in front of it, and white paper on one side barely hiding a puncture in the glass. Wes' name is also covered in pink paint on the email at the bottom of the red banner-style sign

$A different angle of Streeting's office, showing the CHILD KILLER text more visibly. Three punctures with spider-fractures are visible across the front of the office windows.$

JUSTICE FOR TRANS YOUTH

On July 31st, a group of activists representing BASH BACK took action against Wes Streeting's office in Ilford, in response to his continued abuse of trans people in the medical system, and attempts to cover up the suicides of trans young people under his watch as Health Secretary.

In the months since the puberty blockers ban, we have seen huge backpedals in the healthcare rights afforded to trans people - and young people especially - in an NHS system that was never kind to us in the first place.

Under Streeting's rule, GPs have been banned from conducting blood tests on trans patients accessing HRT, and trans people have been banned from accessing hospital wards that fit their gender, leading necessarily to poorer quality of care across the board. Streeting, along with NHS England, the EHRC, and Hillary Cass, have paved the way for state-mandated conversion therapy, which has since led to the Department of Education's proposed introduction of a "Section 28" style bill, preventing discussion of transness in the classroom.
It is clear now that Wes Streeting and the Labour government intend to erase trans people from public life, and will go out of their way to do so, no matter how many bodies lay in their path.

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 25d

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE. NO AMOUNT OF PERFORMATIVE PANDERING WILL SAVE A CAREER INKED IN TRANS BLOOD.

WE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE.

ONCE A CHILD KILLER ALWAYS A CHILD KILLER.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 26d

Sensing Starmer's departure, and aware his performative hatred of trans people has fatally harmed his own ambition to become PM, he utters some warm words - and commits less than £3 per person to tackle the problem his bigotry helped to create. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

‘Unacceptable’ waiting list of up to eight years for NHS gender care

Exclusive: ‘This breaks my heart,’ says minister Wes Streeting as waiting list tops 42,000

www.independent.co.uk

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