Some of the defamation of @Alliancelgb (the nonsense that it is “hateful”, the lie about rightwing funding etc) is clearly part of an effort to discredit LGBA instead of engaging with its concerns. But today I came across a tweet that initially had me stumped./1of5 
What was this person talking about? Most people thought the tweet was anti-lesbian. But the person calls herself a butch lesbian. Suddenly I realized: she thinks LGBA is straight men pretending to care about lesbians in order to express what she misinterprets as transphobia./2of5
How strange! She doesn’t know that LGB Alliance was founded by lesbians, long-time gay & lesbian rights activists, or that over half of the people who work for it (all as volunteers) and its supporters are lesbians. She is unaware that lesbian erasure is causing real misery./3of5
She has clearly never seen or heard any of the interviews in which Kate and I explain why we founded LGB Alliance, what LGBA stands for, what it does, and its plans for the future. But false rumors are spread, and some of them stick. That is the unfortunate side of Twitter./4of5
Most of the detractors of LGB Alliance are well-meaning but ill-informed. The only way to fight ignorance is with knowledge. With respectful engagement. There’s no other way./5of5
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