Protest held outside of the BBC over their coverage that “attacks” transgender people

The article also quoted the anti-trans U.K. group LGB Alliance which claimed, without proof, that a “sizable minority” of trans women pressure lesbians into sex. Both LGB Alliance and Get the L Out! actively campaign against transgender civil rights, and Get the L Out! has protested Prides because of their opposition to transgender rights.

The article has since been revised, but the BBC has refused to retract it. Most of the perspectives shared in the story are presented anonymously, but one person quoted by name, Lily Cade, was removed from the article entirely after publication. Cade had been accused of sexual assault multiple times, and after the article was released, published a long tirade on her own website calling for violence against and killing of trans people, whom she describes as “vile, weak, disgusting whiny, fake-victim.”

Still, the BBC stood behind the article, which they claimed went through a “rigorous editorial process.” Since then, even BBC’s own staff has also begun objecting to the organization’s coverage of trans people in multiple “listening sessions” held by management.