A lioness, lost but found.

bad art by and for fandom: the guys are the main focus who have a lot of thoughts and feelings and character arcs and the women are mostly defined by being moms or lesbian bffs and nags

Bad art by and for Fandom men: Hey do you want to see the female characters as sex dolls for the male characters? You just wanna see female characters as things for the male characters to stick their dicks in, right? Strong and interesting women are just the sexual play things of men, correct? Sapphic sexual encounters are just for done for the voyeuristic male audience, right? Futas - I mean trannies, should always have massive cocks and tits, and can be fucked by anyone, they're basically sex slaves.

But anyway, I believe with my whole chest that Legoshi from Beastars is a trans woman.

And I don't think it would take that much to basically allow her to crack her egg, literally I think if she saw a trans woman wolf walking down the street on her usual day to day she would probably start on the road to cracking her egg and unfortunately delaying estrogen thanks to her desire to have kids with Haru.

Like it's pretty read, especially in the Manga where he is explicitly described as being very feminine when trying to impress people (like Haru's family), he's got a habit of trying to understand women's perspective (he cross-dresses twice for this for some reason), he's cross-dressed 3 different times despite not needing too, before meeting Haru it could be said that he is basically trying to be ungendered and asexual, also his struggle with his body and desires are very easy to read as trans coded.

He affirms himself as a guy exactly once, and it's basically just him trying to conform to heterosexuality because that's how he thinks things should be (he thinks being attracted to a girl is proof that he is a boy/man). Like he explicitly states that he thinks that this (attraction to Haru) proves that he is a boy, which is weird for a male character to do, all things considered.

As for some fanarts of it, I really like these. Because yeah, she'd totally dress like a grandmother if she could.

Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3

like I remember being a young dyke who was closeted and wanted to date girls but being so scared I was wrong, because I was seeing constant jokes and media hammering the idea that you might Think you like women, you might like Kissing women, but until you taste a vulva then you can never know for sure (so you shouldn’t risk it, since you don’t want to lead anyone on, better to never have queer sex). all these narratives showing “straight” girls getting that far and then realizing with disgust and horror that they are innately, Categorically Not Into Women because they do not enjoy a specific sex act with a specific genital configuration (because obviously that’s the only Real Lesbian way to fuck /s). and then returning to the “safety” of dating cis men.

and like the exact same thing applies to women with penises too. this idea that, well you might Think you’re attracted to her, you might like kissing her, but until you go down on her (cause obviously all sex with trans women involves contact with her penis /s) then you can never know for sure (so you shouldn’t risk it, since you don’t want to lead anyone on, better to never have sex with trans women). there’s an even greater volume of media and narratives, even more viscerally and violently, portraying people’s disgust at trans women’s privates, and then returning to the “safety” of dating cis people.

But Sunni and Calla's interactions in the show scream "we're feeling something that could be romantic but we're currently too young/too embedded in a world where queer people aren't around to know that" right?

Like every episode that they're together they're like two magnetic needles pointing right at each other?

And it's not the usual girl best friends that you find in most kids cartoons. There's no times where they fight over boys affections, no times they're envious (besides Sunni generally wanting to be a princess) of each other, at best there's one episode where they get shitty at each other but like they get over it real fast.

Sure Sunni is supposed to like Gusto (but like, I really think it's mostly that Gusto is the only bear in his like 20's she's ever met and the only one she doesn't immediately think of as Family).

are you beating the uhaul allegations? (be honest.)

do you identify as butch, femme, masc, and/or gnc? or none of the above?

how did you realize you were sapphic?

who is/was your most intense sapphic crush?

do you consider yourself a dyke?

are you good at picking up on when people are flirting with you, or do you tend to be more oblivious?

have you ever crushed on a straight girl?

what's your relationship status? are you happy about it?

do you have a "type"? if so, what is it?

did you do anything gay as a kid that makes sense when you look back on your childhood?

what are some good sapphic songs/music artists?

good sapphic books/poems/authors?

good sapphic movies/shows?

list five things you look for in a partner, or five things you love about your current partner(s).

are you the gay cousin?

do you consider being sapphic a big part of your identity?

how many people have you dated? talk about them if you want!

thoughts on e-dating or long distance? have you ever done it? how did it go?

describe your fashion sense. do you "dress gayly"?

do you consider yourself to be a good kisser?

are you generally "out" to people?

how do you feel about valentine's day?

do you like being referred to with masculine adjectives, feminine adjectives, both, or neither?

thoughts on marriage?

have you ever gone to a pride parade?

do you read yuri manga?

do you fit any sapphic stereotypes / other stereotypes related to your identity?

what's a canon sapphic ship you enjoy?

how about a non-canon sapphic ship?

who's your favorite sapphic character?

LEAST favorite sapphic character?

tell a funny story about something really gay you've done.

do you get crushes/fall in love easily?

who's a sapphic person you look up to? they can be someone in your life, a historical figure, a celebrity, etc!

You need to do away with regressive attitudes to build the movement.

You need to be anti-misogynist, anti-racist, anti-xenophobic, anti-queerphobic, ect and basically against the many forms of oppression the ruling class use to divide the working class. This cannot wait till after the revolution, it has to happen now, currently.

the first time i used the women's bathroom was the same way.

"The government isn't going to take away your benefit or student allowance because you start to transition (that's a silly thought in 2016 in NZ), You start now and in less than 6 months you can change your name and pronouns basically everywhere and in like a year and a half (going through the public system) you could be on estrogen"

She talks of a leather dyke event ran by trans men who's rule was that no trans women were allowed.

People today will say " x group has always been welcome in the lesbian community" and then fail to understand WHY that is. You can see the WHY with who they chose to exclude every time.

The mag I was reading was talking about a lesbian only conference and the event runners were saying they aren't going to police people's gender identity and never will, however quote, "if you can't slam your dick in a drawer and walk away, then the (kink events they were hosting) aren't for you." And the x group in question let that happen, happily went into these lesbian and women only spaces that openly excluded specific groups of women, and left trans women in the dust in the process. In fact, as told in this section of the magazine I was reading, when the few trans women would show up and try to speak, everyone would become hostile towards her despite listening so attentively towards trans men previously.

It's just crazy that in the big 2025 this still happens. Everyone wanna talk about "read queer history" "get offline and learn your history" until the history shows a very clear pattern of something that they were ignoring. Even as we have a better term to describe what this is today, that being trans misogyny + trans misongynoir, a certain group (you know exactly who. Hint: not trans women) will say that we should all just "stop infighting" when this part of our history is brought up, and even when it's brought up as an issue today. But what happened to learn queer history? Or is it only useful when it benefits you?

Lesbian spaces should always include trans women, these spaces are for them. They have every right to be here, they are more than entitled to these spaces. I don't trust any lesbian spaces or conversations around lesbianism that view trans acceptance as something only TMEs are entitled to.

I will leave this right here:

The autobiographies of MTFs are different from mine, but I still want to hear their stories. I do not believe they are simply "men dressed as women," as I heard someone contemptuously label them at last year's event. If someone has always felt intense discomfort in their body and is unable to meet others' expectations of "gender appropriate" behavior, to what extent was that person ever a "real man" or "real woman"? I think MTF dykes have earned the right to be part of my community. Not every MTF is my close personal friend or somebody I'd want to sleep with, but they certainly are not the enemy.

initially, i thought this text wasn't online anywhere. searches on jstor and google books and also regular google found me a number of citations, including in Zachary I Nataf's Lesbians Talk Transgender, and C. Jacob Hale's Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies: How to Have Sex without Women or Men, but not the text itself. it is lucky i thought to search the internet archive directly once i'd discovered what the magazine was

i would encourage people who want to improve the tumblr userbase's literacy of queer history to make it as easy as possible to find that history. that way they can verify your claims about it, and discuss it further if they want. it's really easy to lie in images of text, and it's suspicious to conspicuously avoid naming the publication you're reading from

anyway. in addition to the historical interest (of which there is much), here's another reason to read this article:

(1) the event was not run by trans men. it was run by "leather dykes" though i would call them lesbian TERFs myself

(quote "As leather dykes we have had very little opportunity on a national or international scale to dialogue. We intend for this conference to facilitate that dialogue and to also increase our networking capabilities.")

(2) the article not only describes observing bigotry towards trans woman but also bisexual woman, non-binary people, intersex people, and yes also trans men.

(quote "POWERSURGE is open to and welcomes women born women leatherdykes (chromosomal [XX] females only). If you can’t slam your dick in a drawer and walk away, this conference is not open to you. Just a reminder that leatherdykes come in various forms. You may see butches with shaved legs or femmes with facial hair. Please keep an open mind.")

lets break it down slowly

biphobia

(quote "Do lesbians behave differently when they know bi women are around? Probably. But you can’t really make bisexual leather women stay away from a conference. You can only force them to be silent about their true identities. Bisexuals are active in every level of our community, and we have a common cause with them. Bisexuals are not closeted homosexuals or heterosexual spies in queer mufti. Even the March on Washington got over their biphobia (well, some of it, anyway).

My lover identifies as bisexual. On the street, she gets called a dyke at least as often as I do. Her family disowned her for being queer. Do I have to leave the woman I love at home before I can come to a lesbian event?")

(quote "I’ve had less straight sex than many women who call themselves dykes today. But some women have told me that my history disqualifies me from admission to Powersurge.")

exosexism

(quote "[The state, the medical] establishment, my family, and my community have absolutely no right to tell me how I should feel about the body I was born with, whether or not I can change it to be more comfortable with it, or whether I want to be called “her,” “him,” or both/neither.")

intersexism

(quote "It’s been estimated that 10% of babies are born with anomalous external genitals. That does not include the people who are born with hormonal or genetic differences that make them hidden hermaphrodites. Doctors decide whether these babies will be perceived as and raised as little girls or little boys. Sometimes they surgically alter the child. Our society literally does not permit gender-ambiguous people to exist.")

bigotry towards trans men

(quote "are [FTMs] aware that the Outer Limits' policy implies that they can never make a transition to their gender of preference?")

(quote "Why is the lesbian community solely responsible for giving FTMs a refuge? Many FTMs claim they would prefer to occupy the gay men’s leather community. So why aren’t leathermen being confronted with this issue? Why aren’t the gay boys being told they have to get over their bigotry about transsexuality and welcome gay-identified FTMs as brothers? Is it because gay men are even more rigid about gender than dykes? If so, I want FTMs to stop bitching about how awful the lesbian community has been to them."

(quote "Some of the FTMs who spoke chose to soft-pedal their current gender identity and label themselves as being “in between” or “experimenting” with a male image when in fact they are living and working as men full-time and intend to get as much surgery as they can afford. This is hard to say because many of these folks are my friends, but I felt I was being told some lies.")

(3) the author is a trans man but op refer to him using she/her pronouns.

(Wikipedia article titled 'Patrick Califia' reading "Patrick Califia (born 1954), formerly also known as Pat Califia and by the last name Califia-Rice, is an American writer of non-fiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry. Califia is a bisexual trans man. Prior to transitioning, Califia was a lesbian and wrote for many years a sex advice column for the gay men's leather magazine Drummer. His writings explore sexuality and gender identity, and have included lesbian erotica and works about BDSM subculture. Califia is a member of the third-wave feminism movement.")

Overall the article read as anti-TERF while talking about the broad range of bigotry present in the 1992 queer community (with a focus on lesbian spaces as that is where the author frequented)

The authors stance (at the time) was that trans men should not be allowed at lesbian only events (but acknowledged that gender can be blurry and it would be best that trans men identify themselves rather than other people policing them), trans women should be included as they are women, bi woman should be included as they are WLW, and non-binary and intersex people who are WLW should be included.

She talks of a leather dyke event ran by trans men who's rule was that no trans women were allowed.

People today will say " x group has always been welcome in the lesbian community" and then fail to understand WHY that is. You can see the WHY with who they chose to exclude every time.

The mag I was reading was talking about a lesbian only conference and the event runners were saying they aren't going to police people's gender identity and never will, however quote, "if you can't slam your dick in a drawer and walk away, then the (kink events they were hosting) aren't for you." And the x group in question let that happen, happily went into these lesbian and women only spaces that openly excluded specific groups of women, and left trans women in the dust in the process. In fact, as told in this section of the magazine I was reading, when the few trans women would show up and try to speak, everyone would become hostile towards her despite listening so attentively towards trans men previously.

It's just crazy that in the big 2025 this still happens. Everyone wanna talk about "read queer history" "get offline and learn your history" until the history shows a very clear pattern of something that they were ignoring. Even as we have a better term to describe what this is today, that being trans misogyny + trans misongynoir, a certain group (you know exactly who. Hint: not trans women) will say that we should all just "stop infighting" when this part of our history is brought up, and even when it's brought up as an issue today. But what happened to learn queer history? Or is it only useful when it benefits you?

Lesbian spaces should always include trans women, these spaces are for them. They have every right to be here, they are more than entitled to these spaces. I don't trust any lesbian spaces or conversations around lesbianism that view trans acceptance as something only TMEs are entitled to.

I will leave this right here:

The autobiographies of MTFs are different from mine, but I still want to hear their stories. I do not believe they are simply "men dressed as women," as I heard someone contemptuously label them at last year's event. If someone has always felt intense discomfort in their body and is unable to meet others' expectations of "gender appropriate" behavior, to what extent was that person ever a "real man" or "real woman"? I think MTF dykes have earned the right to be part of my community. Not every MTF is my close personal friend or somebody I'd want to sleep with, but they certainly are not the enemy.