Thread by @AlexandraErin

Re: Political lesbians - it's funny to think how mostly the same people who want you to believe that bisexual women and pansexual women and trans women can't be lesbians also want you to believe that straight women *can* be lesbians.

https://twitter.com/Rana_Strange/status/1416692531597692930

Of course, it's also the people who want to insist on defining what lesbian means for everybody else who will shout about how other people are trying to define it for them (i.e., by not letting them define it for everybody else.)

Every time there's drama over something like trans women showing up at lesbian night at a gay bar, there's a lot of yelling about "they're trying to define lesbian to say I have to like dick!" but you look into it and their problem is that *other* lesbians might date trans women.

And if you can pin them down on the fact that they're objecting to what lesbian means *to other lesbians* and who *other lesbians* choose to date, they'll say things like, "This just gives men permission to try to convert me, if 'lesbian' can include people who like dick."

And if you ask them how they could know that will happen, they will get angry and say you are erasing their experience because that already happens and... oh, so it's *not* the fault of trans lesbians and trans-inclusive cis lesbians, then, is it? It's the men, isn't it?

"This thing that men already do will start happening if we allow trans women to exist safely in public." isn't a great argument.

See also: Men who want to follow women into restrooms and assault them... already do it.