The One Bermuda Alliance has been threatened with legal action as a result of a post that appeared on social media.

The tweet appeared on the OBA’s Twitter feed and showed Eron Hill, Christopher Famous and Makai Dickerson wearing bras at last week’s protest against proposed health reforms outside Cabinet.

The picture was accompanied with a message reading: “Opposition PLP makes mockery of women and transgendered.”

The post prompted the trio to take to social media to reject the claims. They explained that they had lost loved ones to cancer and had attended the demonstration as a show of support.

Yesterday, Mr Hill threatened to take legal action if the “defamatory threads” were not permanently removed by tomorrow at 5pm and an apology printed in the newspaper.

In a letter to Premier Michael Dunkley, Mr Hill said: “On June 6, 2015, the One Bermuda Alliance (1bermudaalliance) twitter page posted a tweet which contains a photo of Thomas Christopher Famous, Makai Dickerson, and myself, Eron Hill, that has been tampered with, altered, and embedded with words that were not included in the original.

“The photo has been embedded with the wording ‘Catherine Jenner Support Group’. I find this to be extremely juvenile, distasteful, disrespectful and defamatory. The One Bermuda Alliance (1bermudalliance) twitter account then wrote ‘Opposition PLP makes mockery of women and transgendered’ above the photo.

“Notwithstanding that none of the persons identified in the photo are elected PLP officials, the photo purports to insinuate that those in the photo were mocking women and transgendered, nothing could be further from the truth.”

Last night, the OBA remained tight-lipped about the incident. A spokesman said: “The One Bermuda Alliance is not prepared to comment on correspondence received by the party.”

The Twitter post came a short time after Mr Dunkley took to Facebook about another picture that appeared on social media showing him with Senator Jeff Baron walking through the Cabinet grounds after the protest.

Mr Dunkley said: “It is indeed most unfortunate while walking through the display someone took this picture that a few are trying to turn into a political football.

“My apologies to anyone if Sen Jeffrey Baron or I unintentionally offended them when we viewed the display.

“We arrived back at the Cabinet around 7.45pm and got out of the car at the front door, looked at the grounds, walked to the flagpole to read what was posted, walked back to the building and did not step on any personal items.”