2nd trans woman says “hungry fiend” Lindsey Graham paid her for sex

"This transphobic, homophobic man can rot in hell," she said.

A second transgender sex worker said she was hired by the recently deceased Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Her claim comes one week after another trans sex worker came forward with her own story about Graham.

“Lindsey Graham was one of my clients. This transphobic, homophobic man can rot in hell,” Taylor Snider said before the start of her conversation with gay journalist Matt Cullen in an interview he published last Friday.

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She said she met Graham in 2015 at the Hilton hotel near Dupont Circle during her first-ever visit to Washington, D.C. Snider had posted online advertisements offering her services as an escort, to which Graham anonymously responded, she said. She then read text messages with Cullen which allegedly showed Graham negotiating a 1:30 p.m. meeting with her at the starting “donation” price of $400.

“Are you more of a top or a bottom? I am a bottom,” Graham allegedly texted Snider.

“I am 100% versatile,” Snider responded, “but please refrain from speaking explicit over the phone until we get acquainted, please.” She added, “Could you at least describe what you look like?”

He allegedly responded, “Older white male, salt and pepper hair, stocky build.”

At this point in the alleged interaction, Snider didn’t know what Graham looked like, nor did she closely follow national politics, so she didn’t recognize Graham as a politician when they finally met in person.

“I had no clue who he was. I just thought he was just some horny old guy,” she told Cullen.

She said the encounter lasted 30 minutes, that he didn’t seem nervous about being recognized or about the sexual act itself, and that she didn’t ask about his work or life. Snider said that it wasn’t until she later traveled to New York City and saw Graham’s face on CNN playing on a public TV that she recognized him as her client.

“I didn’t know anything really about his politics or his policies or anything like that,” she said. “But then, like, as time continued to go on, then like he started to push more for the North Carolina [anti-trans] bathroom laws and stuff… and I was just like, ‘You are a hypocrite! What the hell?'”

Snider said that she has heard that Graham slept with gay men and trans women. Cullen then asked Snider about whether Graham had “ladybugs,” moles along his crotch, a physical detail that briefly went viral in a quickly deleted 2020 post in which an anonymous person claiming to be a sex worker recounted their alleged encounter with Graham.

“The ladybugs are real. The ladybugs are real,” Snider said, calling them “skin tags.”

Cullen added, “You know, I debated asking that, but I was like, I gotta ask.”

“No, they’re very real,” Snider repeated.

Snider also said of Graham, “She’s definitely skilled [at bottoming]… She was not shy about what she liked… She wanted to get f**ked… She was a c**k-hungry fiend.”

Snider mentioned that sex worker and adult video performer Sean Harding asked other sex workers to come out with their stories about Graham in 2020, to help expose the hypocrisy of his anti-LGBTQ+ policy stances. While Snider said that sex workers usually stay discreet about their clients, she felt his death and anti-queer politics allowed her to speak out.

She also claimed to have once received a threatening phone call during Graham’s lifetime, telling her to “watch her back” if she ever went public with stories about him.

“I’m only assuming that like a lot of other people were also silenced too, because nothing ever came of this,” she said. She also said that she didn’t wish to shame Graham over his sexual desires, but only his hypocrisy.

“This is really just to bring awareness to the hypocrisy that is going on in this country right now,” Snider told Cullen. “In this world, there’s so much of this type of crap that’s happening right now in so many different ways… It needs to be brought to light, and these people do need to be held accountable.”

Graham publicly denied being gay during his lifetime, though accusations about his orientation persisted throughout his political career, especially as he opposed any expansion of LGBTQ+ civil rights.

Last week, trans author Jesse James Rose claimed that the senator paid her for intimate encounters during her time as a pre-transitioned “twinky” college student. She said Graham paid her to do “unspeakable things” to him as he wore red lingerie.

In a follow-up video posted six days ago, Rose said she was refusing media requests to say anything more about her experiences with Graham and encouraged journalists to raise the voices of trans sex workers of color as well as Iranian, Iraqi, and Palestinian people whose lives were harmed by Graham’s support of continued wars in the Middle East.

“The story shouldn’t just be that Lindsey Graham was a closeted senator,” Rose said. “He was a war criminal and an architect of genocide against Palestinian people… through his war mongering, countless Iranian, Palestinian, and Iraqi lives were decimated, and those families have stories, and I think they should be platformed over mine.”

She also said that she appreciated the number of supportive comments towards her as a trans individual and sex worker, but she added, “I hope you’re extending the same protection and care towards the sex workers and trans people in your own community and not just online… [and that journalists are] offering trans sex workers the support they need so they can safely tell their stories.

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