Fucking brilliant. Bloody difficult to bring something like this up in the minute or two that Sonia had to talk about the LGBT organisations' by now rampant lesbophobia where it comes to the L vs the T.
My top 5 results when I google Cotton Ceiling on my mobile:
One of those terrible essays by Cursed E (an AGP claiming to be in a lesbian relationship). Read some of these. Usually disingenuous, superficial, drenched in contempt for actual women and smugly presented by an author with high opinions of the author's intellect and learning.
Miranda Yardley's post from 2014 pointing out the hypocrisy in targeting lesbians for not accepting males who identify as trans as sexual partners when straight men don't either or at best do have sex with males who identify as trans and who pass to the eyes of a male as a woman but who treat them as their "dirty little secret".
The Cotton ceiling and autogynephila from TERF is a slur presenting evidence of lesbians being to to do dick or else and
The Cotton Ceiling? Really? by Femonade, an excellent article with an unbelievable email exchange between a male lesbian and an actual lesbian that introduces the reader to the concept of the female penis. Presents a few Venn diagrams exploring the simple truth that the circle containing male lesbians will never ever intersect with the circle of the people who have to use birth control so as not to fall pregnant and why (because they are men and men qua males don't get pregnant of course).
And last but not least, a Fair Play for Women article on the issue.
Even if you just read the first one, that AGP is so deep down the rabbit hole that the unsuspecting reader will just keep going WTF WTF WTF WTF WTAF am I reading?!?
I know I did and I found all of those articles very early. It's what helped pushed me over the edge from outrage into activism.
I can't find the original post anymore, which didn't just introduce me to the concept but also laid out in detail how many lesbian spaces, groups, provisions had already disappeared (by 2012 or 2013). It also explained how this colonisation of the L by the T started and when the takeover became apparent as such to those in the lesbian community.
But here is a quote I found elsewhere that for me encapsulates why the concept of overcoming the cotton ceiling is so repugnant and reeks so very much of male entitlement and aggression that firmly embeds any such endeavour in rape culture:
You don’t try to break down barriers, when those barriers are personal sexual boundaries. You do not try. You do not attempt. You accept without a single fucking utterance.