Kit wrote:ouch wrote:Kit wrote:
this feels a lil bit like the "if we let trans women into womens bathrooms cis men will dress up as women to assault them" argument. while yea theoretically that could happen it seems ? unlikely ? and they could still do that even if we did start policing people's genitals & deciding nonbinary lesbians weren't "allowed" or "real" and all that idk
personally the harm i think i could do by questioning / excluding / invalidating nonbinary lesbians of any sex is worse than the harm of a cis man calling himself a lesbian ? & cis men already do that like... idk if that still happens since i dont talk to a lot of cis straight men these days but when i was first coming out i got so many men around me joking that "lol i'm a lesbian too then because i like women too!"
Yes I just rlly don't get the point of calling urself a lesbian, at least if ur nor female passing at all
yea i can see how that's ur perspectve from the outside looking in (not a bad thing!) but i guess it's important to remember that someones gender, their identity and sexuality and all of those internal feelings & their sense of self doesn't always have to correlate to their expression or with whether or not they "pass" to you ? and what constitutes "passing" for you may look different to what "passing" is for other people ? you might be able to guess or assume, but you can not definitively know someone's gender by looking at them, you can only know that by asking them & listening
i guess an example i'd use is like, a binary trans woman who knows she's trans, is attracted to women and identifies as a lesbian, but hasn't yet started her social or medical transition. she "looks like" a cis man and is not "female passing" but she's a woman and a lesbian still right ? like there is no automatic connection between someone's personal, felt and lived gender/sexual identity, and whether or not you personally can immediately identify them as that just by looking at them for 0.2 seconds i guess
In the example, why would any lesbian even be with them, cus I assume the point of lesbianism is woman+woman, not woman+ not transitioned man. Like thats just a man on the outside n idk seems counterintuitive to like a man looking person if u r a lesbian