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Hi anon, 

The thing is, no amount of dangerous puberty blocking medication, hormone injections, or surgical intervention makes a male a female. Jazz Jennings is a great example, his sister is treated like a brood mare for him, receives absolutely no positive attention from her family, has to go along with the charade that Jazz is somehow ‘just like her’ as a girl. But that’s clearly such bullshit. It’s also bullshit for Nicole Maines. And it’s bullshit for Laverne Cox. There is no female on the planet who is treated with such kid gloves, given as many opportunities, invited to speak for women so often as these males are. While I might not be able to immediately tell that Jazz is male just by walking passed him on the street, any prolonged interaction would reveal it. In a couple years when more of these children grow up and start looking for sexual partners, their partners will be able to tell. Men and women’s skin feels different. The literal way our skin works is different, too. Other things, like fat distribution, hips, legs are all different. The intimate partners of trans individuals, even ones who will later suffer from joint pain and brittle bones from the Lupron, will be able to tell that there is a difference. You can’t biohack being the sex you are not. A woman is not a collection of stereotypes, makeup, clothing, lady brain, internal ‘feelings’ of being female, or secondary sex characteristics like breasts. A woman is just an adult female human. A girl is a young female human. That’s it! 

Blue hair is a red flag

What is so funny is that on tumblr, and it is starting to be the case anywhere else as well, radical feminist means “being aware that two biological sexes exist”. That’s not being a radical feminist, that’s not being nor radical nor feminist. That’s is called having basic knowledge of human biology.

Of course, for the people who defend the contrary, being a lesbian is a highly political “choice” (while we know it is neither a choice nor political) - that is a way to stigmatized lesbianism, by calling it “exclusionary” and “bigot” and what not. That is a way, for these people, to condition lesbians into heterosexuality. This is the reason why there is so much backlash against lesbians : genderism has become the new fun~ and progressive~ way to hate women, and particularly lesbians.

Don’t be fooled. Don’t cave in.

Be proud of yourself and who you are. The lesbophobes of today are no different than those of yesterday.

You have absolutely every right to feel upset. This person is contributing to the very movement which terrorizes lesbians into compliance towards males. Whether she does that out of self-hatred, internalized misogyny or lesbophobia, matters very little. Her actions and speech are precisely what is causing harm.

You have every right to refuse to engage with her. Think about yourself first and foremost - that includes thinking about your emotional and mental health. 

You come first. Lesbophobes come in the very last place, trust me. 

These aren’t dumb questions, it is perfectly normal and healthy to be curious and to want explanations about who you are.

There is a study that proves that the brain’s response  to certain stimuli in gay males’ brains are similar to the response in hetero women’s brain, and the response to certain stimuli in lesbians’ brains are similar to the response in hetero males’ brains... You can check this out [here]. Notice this denotes brain function, not brain structure.

There has not been any study that has been able to prove actually relevant physical/structural differences between male and female brains, since human brains do not belong to one of the two distinct sex categories, and therefore no physical similarities between homosexuals’ brains and heterosexual’s brains. [x] and more indepth [x]

That’s a homosexual relationship. Still doesn’t make you homosexual tho.

I think it depends on each person. I think for a lot of them it’s a lie, that they don’t fully understand this, that they don’t even know any trans males IRL, so it is easy to say they would date men, as long as they don’t actually have to. But the ones who do date transwomen and all that, happily and fully... Well there’s no doubt those aren’t lesbians.

It’s hard to know, but at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter whether they’re acting out of outright homophobia, or internalized lesbophobia... What matters is that these lies they are spreading and their constant efforts to put males first in every single situation is harming actual homosexual lesbians. The women who are lying about either being lesbians or about wanting to be with men are not just hurting themselves. They should be held accountable for the harm they do, even if they do it out of being mislead, and out of corrosive female socialization. 

2/2 My problems with anxiety arent all caused by my social circles, since I've had anxiety and clinical depression for a long time. Still, modern discourse makes me uncomfortable. It's like as a lesbian I'm expected to validate the identity of trans wlw. The modern lgbt community doesn't feel welcoming to me. I know there are good people in the community, but I've always felt scared opening up about myself. Nowadays my anxiety is doubled by the fear of being outcast. What should I do? Thank you!

I see women describing exactly this almost daily on tumblr, and I can only call it a tragedy. A major backlash to gay rights and a massive, lesbophobic tragedy. 

Homosexuality is not a choice and not something we can change - lesbians are not attracted to men, trans-identified or not. There’s no difference between a “transwoman” and a man. They’re both men, they’re both male, and lesbians are not attracted to them. People seemed to have understood this, but something changed and now we’re back to square one, only this time it’s disguised in “progressive” liberal politics instead of the good old conservative nonsense. Of course, now we’re dealing with both liberals and conservatives, since the conservatives obviously never stopped being the homophobes they always have been.

The only good news I can give you is that we’re increasing in numbers; More women are starting to recognize this disgusting homophobia for what it really is. Women like Magdalen Berns and Meghan Murphy are calling the trans movement out for what it truly is. Sure, it can be extremely disheartening at times - here I’d like to refer to the anonymous woman with the anti trans movement-plaque at the women’s march who’s facing a lot of backlash and threats. But we are increasing in numbers. Even big youtubers like Ariella Scarcella who’s been supportive of the trans movement for a long time is starting to speak up against the problems in it - she has a large crowd of lesbian and bisexual women following her; Surely at least some of them will start questioning the trans movement because of her, even though she herself doesn’t seem to be all the way there...

Tumblr has a radfem community which is growing daily. More and more women are joining us - and sure, the TRA’s/MRA’s (these are ultimately the same crowd) seem to become more and more vicious, but we are strong. We are persistent. We have arguments based in facts, in science, in actual research - we don’t have to fall back on feelings, personal perceptions of reality, and make-believe. I’m confident because of that. 

For your loneliness: I recommend distancing yourself from the mainstream LGBT crowd. They’re hurtful to us, for the very reasons we’ve both described here. Unite with lesbians - female homosexuals, that is - and focus on that. Find friends online. Do some research in your community; Perhaps there’s radfem meetings being organized somewhere close to you? 

I hope this helps. Take care <3