MEAWW.COM / NEWS / HUMAN INTEREST

Who is Lily Cade? Lesbian porn star featured on BBC calls for ‘lynching’ of trans women

Lily Cade was quoted by the BBC in an article about how trans women often pressured lesbians into sex

A lesbian porn star recently quoted in a controversial BBC article is facing backlash after calling for transgender women to be lynched. Anti-transgender activist Lily Cade, who previously apologized for multiple sexual assault allegations in 2017, was quoted by the BBC in an article about how trans women often pressured lesbians into sex.

Cade wrote a post on her website titled "Where are these children's mothers," characterizing trans women as "vile, weak, disgusting whiny, fake-victim" and advocating violence against them.

RELATED ARTICLES

Is TikTok promoting anti-LGBTQ content? App can find if users are homophobic and cater to their biases: Report

JK Rowling slammed for anti-trans tweets claiming she supports trans people but doesn’t want sex to be erased

“If you left it up to me, I’d execute every last one of them personally,” she wrote. “Cancel the ever-living f**k out of this. Cancel this so hard that no man dare walk the path of the trans woman in public ever again! Enough is enough. Lynch Kaitlyn! Lynch the ‘Sisters’ Wachowski! Lynch Laurel Hubbard! Lynch Fallon Fox!” She added, “They can’t take down Lily Cade. She’s already dead. I’m the bullet, bitch. I’m a f**king soldier. You ready? I’m ready.”

She didn't stop there. In another post, Cade likened the growing number of trans people to the controversial "great replacement" theory. “If the Arabs did three percent of what the trans women have done to your people, you would bomb them into the stone age," she alleged, before saying trans people should be “killed… as is the duty of the man to protect the women and the children from pedophile pervert monsters." Despite being a lesbian herself, she insisted that same-sex marriage “was the fall of Rome."

The BBC has faced considerable backlash for the article published on October 26, with many calling the piece transphobic and dangerous. The article records the experiences of several anonymous lesbians who claim they have been threatened and shamed into having sex with trans women.

Who is Lily Cade?

Lily Cade is a 36-year-old pornographic actress based in Los Angeles, California. She has featured in several lesbian films and was nominated for an AVN Award for Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene in both 2011 and 2012. She worked as a dominatrix while going to college, attending Cal Tech for two years, and later graduating from USC Film School. She married her college sweetheart Sten Cade in September 2008.

Cade, who was described as "Porn Valley's Gold Star Lesbian," said she was criticized for not wanting to sleep with trans women. Furthermore, the article cited a number of anti-transgender groups and utilized a study based on members of these organizations.

The article was condemned by pro-trans watchdog group Trans Media Watch (TMW). "Either the BBC has failed to do due diligence on this story – or the team producing this story have knowingly colluded in a disinformation campaign targeted at trans people ... Irresponsible reporting like this is dangerous. It significantly and adversely impacts trans people's day-to-day lives," they wrote.

Speaking to LGBTQ media outlet Pink News, the BBC defended the article saying the topic is a "complex subject" that needed to be addressed. "It is important that journalism looks at issues – even where there are strongly held positions," the outlet stated. "The BBC is here to ensure debate and to make sure a wide range of voices are heard."

Social media was inundated with people calling for the BBC to take action after the post on Cade's website went viral.

"Seriously. Lily Cade has written a Unabomber-style rant about literally executing trans women, with the specific names of who she would lynch. That's who @BBCNews are platforming as having a legitimate viewpoint in the discussion around trans rights. That's where we are," trans activist Steph Paton tweeted.

"If trans women wrote about cis women the way lily cade wrote about trans women, esp after being in the BBC the entire media machine would be focused on it for months, trans charities would be forced to shut down and politicians would openly restrict the rights of trans people," one Twitter user wrote.

"The f***ing gall of the BBC to platform Lily Cade, admitted serial rapist and bigot, about her fucking concerns about trans women. the audacity. no words. Jesus Christ," a comment read.

"I read a lot of grim stuff and I don’t think I’ve ever read anything that calls for murder and genocide as explicitly and fervently as Lily Cade did today other than shooters’ manifestos," another chimed in.