A transgender activist was branded a “violent thug” yesterday after being found guilty of attacking a 60-year-old woman at a rally.

Tara Wolf, 26, who was born male but identifies as female, punched Maria MacLachlan at Speakers’ Corner, in Hyde Park, last year after bragging on Facebook that she wanted “to f**k up some TERFS.”

Transgender activists refer to women who disagree with them as “Terfs”, trans-exclusionary radical feminists. The protesters had clashed over the rights of transwomen to self-declare their legal gender.

After the case, Ms MacLachlan said that she respected some transwomen but “Tara is of the far end of the spectrum”.

Wolf admitted that before attending the rally she had written that Terfs were “no better than FASH [fascists]”.

District Judge Kenneth