I am glad that people are recognising the fact Pride in London has chosen to include everyone in lesbian visibility day therefore rendering it completely meaningless. I am also delighted many are highlighting how lesbophobic it is to include males who ‘identify’ as ‘lesbian women’ under the definition of lesbian, and how homophobic and sexist gender ideology is in general.
As a lesbian woman (female homosexual) I (and many like me) have been extremely angry for many, many years about males being included in the definition of lesbian, and being permitted into lesbian spaces, groups and dating apps etc, due to formerly gay orgs promoting genderism. The problem for us was there were very few places we could go to express our objections to genderism, and the heterosexual males identifying as lesbian women feeling entitled to enter previously lesbian spaces. The blog Gendertrender (which was run by a butch lesbian) and a few other feminist blogs were the only places we could talk about it publicly online. So the assertion that lesbians have all been fine with genderism, and it is just some bigots string up animosity online is simply a lie, many of us objected to the tenets of genderism as soon as we became aware of them many years ago.
Incidentally, I personally remember coming across a wordpress site for males who identified as lesbian women, and seeing one of the male posters saying ‘I’m not worried about lesbians objecting, as they are a small group and nobody listens to them, I’ll only begin worrying if straight women start objecting, as there are so many of them’. We knew just as well as that male poster knew, that we needed allies outside of the lesbian (and feminist) community, as we would be ignored without the support of others, as we simply don’t have the financial resources that heterosexual males often have so we would have to rely on numbers.
Therefore, as a lesbian woman I am very heartened when anyone publicly supports my right to say ‘no a male cannot be a lesbian woman’, and ‘no a male is not entitled to enter lesbian spaces, groups, dating apps etc’. I don’t care what the sex or sexuality is of the posters on that Facebook post, or what other political views they may hold, the fact that they are publicly supporting my boundaries as a lesbian woman (female homosexual) by supporting my right to say no to males is great to see.
I would like to see more sunlight shone on the fact that currently heterosexual males feel entitled to ‘identify’ as lesbian women and it highlighted that the GRA and policies around gender identity are enabling this travesty. I think it needs talking about in parliament and in the mainstream media loudly and often, that this is the current situation, that the GRA and policies on gender identity have led to this situation, and that highlighting this fact leads to accusations of bigotry. The truth is most people do not think it is acceptable for heterosexual males (with their genitals intact no less) to be able to identify as lesbian women and enter lesbian and female only spaces, and this is why exposure of this situation to public scrutiny is being fought against so hard, by activists promoting genderism.