BBC Source, Lily Cade, Posts Rant About Lynching Trans Women
Big content warning for descriptions of violence and sexual abuse here btw.
I didn’t know who Lily Cade was until recently, I’d wager most everyone else didn’t either. The BBC chose to include her in an article in which it attempted to frame transgender women as predatory towards cisgender women. Cade’s inclusion in the piece didn’t really sell the point and worse, seems to have since prompted Cade into a violent tirade in which she claims she would “execute every last trans woman personally”.
As always, the context; The BBC are really going for it on platforming anti-LGBTQIA+ bigotry as of late. This has included the aforementioned piece amongst a myriad of other issues, such as just yesterday when reporter John McManus used said story to compare transgender women to child molestor Jimmy Savile and women like Lily Cade to desperate whistleblowers. His now deleted tweet aged worse than milk given that very night Cade would be on her personal blog suggesting things like the gangraping of a prominent transgender woman’s mother.
Lily was referenced in the BBC article as being part of the origin story for the phrase “The Cotton Ceiling”. The short story of that being a trans woman sex worker complained that she often can’t find work or relationships because of transphobia and called it the…
