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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone is acting like it’s so offensive that she said this during pride month. Let me tell you as a lesbian, so many of us are cheering her on. We’re not allowed to call our bars “for women” any more because apparently that offends non-binary people. I’ve literally seen posters saying such and such is a space for “non-men.” Are you kidding? We’re non-men now?

There’s also a lot of pressure to accept “girl d*ck” (their word, not ours). Most of us just quietly agree that we’re not interested and don’t say anything, but now in a lot of space we’re not even allowed to make lighthearted jokes about v*g because not all lesbians have that now. The activism of the 70s like the V*gna Monologues is censored on college campuses now, which is so regressive. There are also people who identify as he/him lesbians which... sigh

We also miss our butches, so many of whom have now begun to identify as men. For full grown adults to do that is fine but it hurts to see young girls who would have become masculine women transition to identify as men instead at very young ages, and I wonder if I were a teenager now if I’d be one of them.

Look, I KNOW that trans women have a really rough time. They’re the most violently targeted group within LGBT. I absolutely want to march with them for their safety, security, and freedom from discrimination. But the vast majority of violent attacks (all of them?) against trans women and trans men are committed by men. Straight men. But trans activists and allies have instead chosen to OBSESS about “TERFs” — ie women like JKR or like me who say “we support your right you live as you chose free of discrimination, but we also believe that in some cases XX women should be allowed their own spaces.”

Why is so much of the focus on women’s words and not men’s actions?[/quote]

Well said.[/quote]

Slow clap. Thank you for this perspective. [/quote]

+1[/quote]

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