# @pinknews on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQeREv-igGK
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/36464222-pinknews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-31T12:04:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** PinkNews (@pinknews) — https://gondola.cc/pinknews

## Caption

A protest group has vandalised the headquarters of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in response to the human rights watchdog’s controversial interim guidance on single-sex spaces.

BASH BACK, which has taken responsibility for the vandalism, describes itself as a “trans-led direct action project focused on total transgender liberation”.

A minute-long video shared with PinkNews and also shared on social media shows members of the group approaching the building, smashing windows and spraying pink paint at the watchdog’s headquarters in London in an act of direct protest. The video appears to have been filmed in the early hours of Friday morning (31 October).

The EHRC’s widely-criticised interim guidance was published in April in the wake of the landmark UK Supreme Court ruling in the case of For Women Scotland vs Scottish Ministers, which decided the definition of ‘sex’ for the purposes of the 2010 Equality Act means biological sex only.

The interim guidance recommended organisations and service providers bar trans men and women from single-sex services and spaces, such as changing rooms and toilets, which align with their gender – but added in “some circumstances” trans people could also be barred from spaces based on “biological sex”.

It was later clarified that these “circumstances” referred to situations where “reasonable objection” could be taken to a trans person’s presence, such as in female spaces, when “the gender reassignment process has given [a trans man] a masculine appearance or attributes”.

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#ehrc #transgender #ukpolitics #transrights #protest

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protest, transgender, ukpolitics, transrights, ehrc

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