Always intertwined
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The trans and lesbian communities have always been intertwined??? Meaning lesbians have always been intertwined with men who claim to be lesbians? I don’t think so. I really really don’t think so. Why would they be?
Also, there’s no such thing as a “trans lesbian.” Men can’t be lesbians. Men aren’t lesbians. Lesbians are under no obligation to “validate” or embrace or protect or prioritize or defend or scrub the toilets of men who call themselves lesbians.
Also the brandished axes are duly noted. Of course the pretense is that they represent the labrys, which has been a lesbian symbol for decades, but the (at least) double meaning is obvious. “Shut up and comply, bitches, or we’ll chop you up with these here axes.”
Back in the day one might occasionally encounter the odd ‘transman’ in lesbian circles, where they were accepted because they were considered to be mixed up lesbians (and that is probably what they were). Het male ‘transwomen’ perving on lesbians? Hell, no. Definitely no ‘intertwining’.
What these people find so intolerable is lesbians collectively asserting our right to organise separately and exclude males. That is all it takes for them to start gibbering about ‘transphobia’ and ‘hate’.
Three years ago I went on the first Lesbian Strength March in Leeds. There was a hostile counter-march on that occasion too. Leeds police did an excellent job of keeping those marchers under control and distancing them from the lesbian march. I hope to travel to Leeds on Saturday to march with other lesbians on the second Lesbian Strength March.
Excellent! Sending solidarity.