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Woman Platformed By BBC Calls For Execution Of Transgender Women

Phaylen Fairchild
12 min readNov 4, 2021

A notorious BBC hit piece aimed at transgender women has exploded into an international scandal.

On October 26th, BBC journalist Caroline Lowbridge published a scathing article claiming that transgender women are pressuring lesbians into having sex. Instantly, the salacious piece was vehemently criticized, with countless members of the transgender community, allies and even other notable journalists pointing out that the piece was a one-sided smear campaign disguised as journalism. The backlash wasn’t unexpected, however, as the author deleted all of her social media accounts prior to its publication.

Now we understand why.

Caroline Lowbridge sought out a few high profile anti-trans extremists, including the leader of the hate group “Get The L Out,” Angela C. Wild, who infamously hijacked London Pride, “Forcing their way to the front of the Parade” carrying anti-trans banners and yelling derogatory, transphobic slurs from the street into the crowd of onlookers. Lowbridge also sourced a poll Wild had taken on her personal twitter where, of the 80 assumed women who already subscribe to anti-trans ideologies and responded, 56% claimed to have been “Pressured or coerced to accept a trans woman as a sexual partner.” It would be clear to any journalist that such a sampling from a small…

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Phaylen Fairchild
Phaylen Fairchild

Written by Phaylen Fairchild

Actor, Filmmaker, LGBTQ+ & Women’s Rights Activist All work copyright phaylens@gmail.com

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