A group of trans activists smashed the windows and sprayed the words “child killer” across Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s office in east London.
The protest group Bash Back said they took action in response to Mr Streeting’s “continued abuse of trans people in the medical system” on Thursday.
Following the damage, Mr Streeting explained there was a live police investigation following the protest and that he would not be commenting further.
In a post on social media, he wrote: “From day one as Ilford North’s MP I’ve had an accessible and visible constituency office to serve my local community.
“Repeated criminal damage is unfair to my staff and an attack on democracy.”
From day one as Ilford North’s MP I’ve had an accessible and visible constituency office to serve my local community.
— Wes Streeting (@wesstreeting) August 1, 2025
Repeated criminal damage is unfair to my staff and an attack on democracy.
I will not be commenting further while there is a live police investigation.
Bash Back also accused Mr Streeting and the government of intending “to erase trans people from public life, and will go out of their way to do so”.
In a statement, Bash Back added: “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 Hilary Cass, have paved the way for state-mandated conversion therapy, which has since led to the Department for Education’s proposed introduction of a Section 28 style bill, preventing discussion of transness in the classroom.”
The Met Police said they were called at 10.16am on Friday to reports of criminal damage at the office in Woodford Avenue.
The force explained officers went to the scene and found the address had been attacked with paint and the windows had been damaged.
No one was injured and no arrests have been made yet.
