They wrote in an email to What The Trans:
To whom it may concern,
I am a representative of BASH BACK, a trans led direct action group devoted to tackling the rising tide of transphobia in the UK. As I write this, actionists are conducting our first action at Wes Streeting’s office in Ilford North.
Wes Streeting, as you well know, is responsible for a heinous ban on puberty blockers for trans youth, as well as a swathe of other restrictions on transgender people’s healthcare rights.
He is also, according to at least one legal professional, personally responsible for covering up reports of the deaths of trans young people under the care of NHS England. Every day, trans people are dying as a result of his policies and his inaction.
As trans people, we refuse to take this lying down any longer. We have chosen to take action to demonstrate that we will not be victimised or scapegoated by Streeting and his ilk any longer. We will not allow more of our loved ones to be to be harrassed, to be legislated, to be excluded, to be denied healthcare, to be murdered. We are trans and we BASH BACK.
To your last paragraph, I think it’s a mixture of two things. The first being that the UK has become increasingly horrifically transphobic over the past decade, and this current bunch in Labour are opportunists who will just go where they think the votes are. He once said “trans women are women, trans men are men” but several years later changed his view to “men have penises, women have vaginas.” The party has no courage or backbone now to stick up for anyone, because they think conceding to the right wing will win them votes.
The second being that Wes Streeting is known to be one of the more conservative members of the Labour party, both economically and socially. There’s some genuinely upsetting stuff on his Wikipedia page under political beliefs, such as his support for conversion therapy organisations.