A small #lesbian #detrans 🧵
One of the things painfully obvious now after detransitioning, is that being transmasc/trans was the ONLY acceptable way to be anywhere CLOSE to gnc lesbian in presentation. Butch has all but vanished, subsumed in the queer landscape...

Lesbian becomes subsumed by pseudomaleness, and in some cases, sterilized, for ANY scrap of legitimacy. It suits patriarchy pefectly to have lesbians transed into pseudostraights.

This is why lesbian visibility matters so much now, possibly more than ever, in lesbian history.

If there had been anywhere near the lesbian rep I saw at @FiLiA_charity just ANYWHERE in mainstream, I wonder if I would have called myself trans in the first place. I liked women, wearing 'male' clothes, liked tech & science, &all of this has gone from visible to pathologised...

The neo homophobia now, means even budding lesbian kids are transing themselves because lesbianism is seen as so unpopular, so other. Hell, we're still correctively raped and killed worldwide for our orientation. It's back to being seen as bad all over again...

How are young lesbians, gnc lesbians, unpopular lesbians, ANY lesbians meant to navigate this without shame?
We need lesbians visible in ALL their nuances, not just the ones we agree with for the message to get out that being a lesbian is fucking cool actually...

And the sooner that happens, the quicker we can save the young lesbians, the vulnerable lesbians, the disenfranchised lesbians, the autistic lesbians. And IMHO we need to do this NOW to help save them from potentially irreversible decisions that will scar them for life...

I went down the proto-T route & now, shave daily, have breast pain, jaw & voice changes, and that's only from me being too smart for my own good & using what I could get my hands on. God knows what damage others will have if they don't realise that it's okay to be a lesbian.

So this is a plea for more genuine, open lesbian visibility, whether you agree with those lesbians or not. Every story counts now. We are at crisis point. And really, the sterilisation of lesbians without giving them therapy, is the real eugenics here.

Thanks for reading. 🧵