Footage published online shows the moment a young trans activist scaled a building to prevent a protest banner from being removed from outside the Department for Education (DfE).

A group of activists, many of them under the age of 18, have occupied the DfE headquarters in London to protest against the government’s ongoing stance on trans rights.

The activist group “Trans Kids Deserve Better,” which organized the protest, wrote that transgender youth “deserve respect in education and all other areas of life.”

As part of the protest, a banner reading “We are not puppets of your politics” was hung above the doors of the DfE building.

Images from the fifth day of the occupation showed DfE staff attempting to remove the banner. In response, one of the activists, dubbed by British news channel What the Trans Grin, began scaling the building to be the first to reach it.

Footage first posted on Reddit and later shared online shows Grin using the grooves in the stone bricks to climb.

Eventually he caught the banner, made it safely down with the help of other protesters, and was greeted with a hug from several other activists.

On social media, users were amazed by Grin’s climbing skills, with one writing: “Everything about this is so impressive.” Another said: “Whoever they are, they are damn good climbers.”

Trans Kids Deserve Better praised Grin, calling him “Spider-Trans” and thanking him for “climbing several feet off the ground without hesitation.”

The group also protested outside the headquarters of the NHS in July, calling on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to “stop using transgender youth as a weapon.”

On a fundraising page set up by the group, it accuses the government of abusing transgender rights as a tool “to create moral panic, divide the left and distract from the real problems.”

The page, which originally asked for £1,000 ($1,300) to support the protest, has now raised more than £12,400 ($16,400).

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