Thread by @trans_safety

#BBCCoverUp
The @BBC have added this small correction to the very end of their article accusing trans women of predatory conduct towards lesbians, admitting to failing to include important context about Lily Cade.

Rather than including it @BBCNews chose to bowdlerise the article

#BBCCoverUp

This update acknowledgement is hidden at the end of a 4000 word long read, meaning that despite the article going viral and bring subject to a controversy with feedback from tens of thousands, @BBCNews has chosen, again to hide embarrassing information from readers.

We call on the @BBC and invite our followers to also raise the following concerns with the BBC over this piece
- Using hearsay and informal polling that doesn't pass their own editorial guidance

#TransHate
- Promoting a hate group who's research BBC used says "all [trans women] rape women's bodies".
-Without acknowledging that this research was to support a conspiracy theory that transition is colonisation and destruction of lesbianism, the @BBCNews have colluded in it.

- The BBC admit they should have included missing context but have so far not included this context
- The acknowledgement of any article update should be given a prominent position so readers are prompted to look further if necessary

- The only international translation made was published in Brazil where local activists report it driving local media cycles. This article has not been updated to acknowledge errors yet and must be. It should be acknowledged that Brazil has the highest trans murder rate globally.

- Additionally, the BBC must account for the fact the author of this piece knew in advance that Lily Cade was a sexual abuser
- Trans woman @ChelseaPoe666 who responded to request for comment had her contributions excluded, despite high relevance to "cotton ceiling" claims

- Furthermore, the @BBC stripped the context from a tweet they screenshotted reacting to a transphobic hoax which was designed to persuade people that pressure by trans people over sex was real and significant.

Tell the @BBCNews:

We want full transparency on how so many errors, journalistic ethical violations and erasures of fact and can be made in a single article.

Fundamentally we need the @BBCNews to understand that this is not an isolated incident. Our friends at @TransMediaWatch
were raising the alarm about institutional transphobia at the BBC. This was ignored.

That made this wrong and harmful article possible.
pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/22/bbc…

As @christapeterso notes, the survey on which the article was based which calls all trans women rapists is still linked from the amended @BBCNews piece - leading BBC readers to propaganda from an openly anti trans hate group.

https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1456294470111178753

Update: the BBC has now corrected the Brazillian version of the article to match the correction of the English edition. Please escalate any outstanding complaints to include the other issues we discuss above.