THESE pictures show dozens of protesters from a transgender and queer affinity group outside the offices of the BBC.

The protest, organised by the Reclaim Pride Brighton, began outside the building in Queens Road in Brighton at 1pm on Saturday, November 11.

Speakers spoke to the crowd through megaphones, while others led chants and held signs.

Some of the signs on display said, ‘Stop portraying trans women as rapists’ and ‘Respect existence or expect resistance’.

Others in attendance set off smoke bombs and stuck post-it notes on the outside of the building.

The protest was titled Fight BBC Transphobia.

In a statement released on Twitter, Trans Brighton Pride said: “BBC have been diving head first into full-blown hate speech.

“They’re sustained attacks of Stonewall and support of transphobic hate groups has gone too far.

“A recent article platformed a TERF that claims that trans women are sexual predators, presenting an eliminationist hate group as reasonable journalism.

“One of their sources of this article has advocated explicitly for the murder of transgender people. We will not allow this to continue.

“There has been protests across the country in recent weeks, and we’re calling out the queer communities in and around Brighton to come out and demonstrate with us.

“We are a community united against institutionally-backed eliminationism.

“It will not deter us. It will not divide us. It will not defeat us. And we’re gonna prove it.”