Fox, we all find threads that trolls continually try to derail repellent. Keeps happening though,trolls keep on trolling.
Yeah, see, I wasn't trying to derail. I try to avoid coming in here, I was going to make a throwaway comment that was more about the billboard and hope you came back with nothing worth bothering about, but people had to start on the Pride thing because you think the lesbians are in the bag as your constituents, allies or at least emotive props and you can't handle the thought that large numbers of them loathe everything you stand for.
My subsequent posts have been responses to replies, some or most of them from straight people, almost all of them of childlike ignorance, telling me how to gay. If you're appropriating my concerns as a member of a less privileged group and you don't have my consent or the relevant experience, well now, that sounds like a complaint with which you'd feel you could sympathise, doesn't it?
I've also listened at great length to the opposing views of other lesbians but there's no universal user agreement, none of us gets to dictate the others' views on homosexuality and straight people can think what they like, safe in the knowledge that we don't have to care. So if you don't want your thread "derailed" by pertinent replies then ignore them and definitely don't post possessively about things which you haven't got the right to dictate, such as lesbianism, feminism, this board or this thread, especially if you also feel entitled to derail threads that you don't like with passive-aggressive lacunae such as recipes and biscuits.
seriously, a woman saying she's a lesbian has no more authority to change the definition of words than anyone else. And I don't know why you think it.
Well, people to whom a word pertains often take ownership of it and manage to deliberately repurpose it if they don't like its current usage, e.g. queer going from a pejorative to a generally defiant to a more specific political sense. But in general yes, words follow a process of evolution through common use, and sadly for you there is no interventionist referee. People gradually use them in a different way, often by simple error, and so nauseous now means nauseated and nauseating means nauseous whether you or I or the dictionaries like it or not. Or they drift towards a more specific interpretation or a less specific interpretation for necessity or convenience's sake. So if a critical mass of people take lesbianism to include trans women then it will, and your preferred meaning might eventually go the way of the panda in the same way that "pathic" still means passive or suffering but is no longer used to refer to bottoming men because society doesn't feel the need to stigmatise them so much.
Sexual orientation is a protected characteristic under equality law. If you disagree with that, take it up with them.
Given that sex reassignment is also legally certified I think they'll be fine about a cis woman and a trans woman being a lesbian couple. You're not even trying now, so I think my work is done here.