Jo Bartosch on that BBC article that seems to have caused such a stir - The homophobia of the trans lobby:
This week the BBC published a story about the wrong type of victims.
Journalist Caroline Lowbridge wrote an article headlined ‘We’re being pressured into sex by some trans women’. The piece gives a voice to lesbians who say they have been subjected to sexual pressure, and in some cases sexual violence, from men who identify as transgender women. Astonishingly, rather than praise the BBC for giving column inches to lesbians to talk about the abuse they have faced, the loudest voices in the LGBT-plc world have not only condemned the BBC for the article, but they have also dismissed the testimonies of the women interviewed.
The harassment of lesbians by straight men who identify as ‘transbians’ (ie, heterosexual male ‘transgender lesbians’) is a dirty little secret that the LGBT lobby is embarrassed to discuss. It is the 21st-century manifestation of that gruff bloke saying ‘I’ll turn you, love’. But because it comes with a woke gloss the perpetrator is no longer considered a creep – he is a brave and beautiful translady.
The BBC story covered the phenomenon of the ‘cotton ceiling’. This is a play on the idea of a ‘glass ceiling’ though the cotton in question is the underwear of lesbian women. For some men who identify as transgender women there is no greater validation of their ‘womanly’ identity than sex with a lesbian.
Unsurprisingly, given that lesbians are solely attracted to women, they tend not to be so enthusiastic about this arrangement. Not least because the overwhelming majority of transwomen retain their penises. Plus, a quick look on any lesbian dating app makes it clear some can’t even be arsed to remove their stubble.
There followed, inevitably, the howls of protests from trans activists.
An open letter of complaint addressed to BBC management, organised by trans activists, has attracted thousands of signatures. It includes these rather precious lines: ‘A transgender woman with a deep voice, a square jaw and a penis that you do not want to have sex with is not a man. She is a woman that you don’t find attractive.’ Sometimes the words of trans activists are revealing enough....
Despite all the accusations of bias and transphobia, the BBC piece was fair in its reporting. Lowbridge, its author, allowed Stonewall chief executive Nancy Kelley the opportunity to have her say. But rather than engage with the problem lesbians were raising, Kelley made a shocking but revealing statement: ‘Nobody should ever be pressured into dating, or pressured into dating people they aren’t attracted to. But if you find that when dating you are writing off entire groups of people, like people of colour, fat people, disabled people or trans people, then it’s worth considering how societal prejudices may have shaped your attractions.’
To reiterate: the woman who sits at the head of Europe’s largest LGBT lobby group compared exclusive same-sex attraction to racism and suggested homosexuals should reflect on the inherent prejudice of their sexual orientation. In the space of just a few years Stonewall has shifted from advocating for lesbian, gay and bisexual people to claiming that sexual orientation is inherently bigoted.
Thankfully, the publication of Lowbridge’s piece suggests that the grip of Stonewall and the LGBT lobby on BBC output is loosening....
The strength of their grip is still to be examined
Posted by: Shir | October 28, 2021 at 02:20 PM