BBC Anti-Trans Article; explained
Obviously I wrote about the BBC article yesterday before anyone had really had a chance to dive into the details of it all. Well now is not yesterday, now is today and outside of the one issue we poked a little fun at yesterday, the rest of the article isn’t much better.
To recap; yesterday we made fun of the fact that the article cites a “survey” by an anti-trans hate group known as “Get The L Out”. This survey had only 80 respondents and only 56% of which agreed with the premise of the group and article; the idea that trans women are coercing lesbians into sex and relationships. This is obviously hilarious, the low number, the fact only just above half of that low number agree. Chefs kiss, could not make it up.
But that’s this whole BBC article for you! Take another part of it; the trans woman apparently showing support for coerced lesbians. The BBC article was careful not to show the context surrounding this response and even blurred out the original poster. But Twitter has this function where you can search exact strings of words and so it took all of about 3 seconds to track it down to the source. The source being a response to a Trump Supporting MAGA hat wearing transphobic cisgender lesbian YouTuber called Arielle Scarcella. Scarcella who is famed for such hits as “Where are all the lesbians going?” a comment she made after Elliot Page came out as…
