A bright orange bus that launched a road trip this week to argue against transgender rights was in New York City just one day before vandals approached it in full daylight to spray paint on the words "trans liberation," hammer holes in the side, and smash in the windshield.



The “Free Speech Bus,” as the creators call it, was parked outside the United Nations headquarters at about 4pm on Thursday to promote the idea that sex is fixed from birth and transgender people's gender identity should not be recognized in public.

“The driver was with the bus and saw two men approach and began spray-painting the side of it,” Joseph Grabowski, a spokesperson for the National Organization for Marriage, one of three groups behind the project, told BuzzFeed News.

“He confronted them, which is when they took out the hammer,” he said. “They were able to do some damage before fleeing.”

Photos show it was tagged with the words “Transgender rights now!” and the paneling was gashed with a hammer.