EmilyinEverton
Definitions aren't a popularity contest. There are many words the majority of the population don't use or have never heard of. All that's required for new word legitimacy is circulation in culture. They have to be used and understood. Certainly in recent times trans lesbianism has been circulating in media & culture. Whether people dispute the validity of a phenomena is irrelevant to whether the word/definition that describes it stands because its usage based.
OK. Fine. If you say that the word 'translesbian' has been circulated in some areas of the media and culture, I'm sure you're right. If you google it, I'm sure there'll be lots of results. Some online dictionaries may even give definitions of it.
So yes, the word 'translesbian' exists. It is used in some very restricted milieux to describe a very small group of men who have adopted a complicated identity which involves appropriating terms relating to women's sexuality and sexual identities.
'All that's required for new word legitimacy is circulation in culture.
The word 'translesbian' is in circulation in some very niche areas, that's undeniable.
But is that really 'legitimisation'?
A translesbian is a man who claims to be a woman but who is still a man; a woman who is sexually attracted to a translesbian is a woman who is attracted to a man.
Bolting together two words that mean opposite things produces a word which may be 'legitimised', but not the concept behind it.
The two elements of this failed neologism contradict each other.
Apart from all that, I'm totally fed up with men appropriating women's identities, cultures and words, like 'lesbian'.