My work's alphabet group promoted lesbian visibility week today...and made it very clear it was for LGBTQI+ women & nonbinary, as well as lesbians, specifically in that wording order. Nice eh.
And then said the most important thing was unity with ALL women, esp those of marginalised communities. Guess who they mean here? The Most Oppressed Group of course, aka not boring shitty actual females.
So let's look at this assertion that LVW is about LGBTQI+ women ...
L - yes, correct..please stop there. Oh gawd you're not going to stop there are you? Of course you're not...
G means gay men so nope, unless you mean lesbians who call themselves gay in which case okay, but this isnt what's meant by the G part of the alphabet
B are bisexuals so no, you know, because bi women aren't actually lesbians
T women are transwomen so hell the no not these, and as they specified WOMEN they're excluding transmen from the T here
Q may include lesbians who describe themselves like that so okay, but def not the rest of the Qs
I - are nothing to do with this & many have asked not to be lumped with the rest like this, if they're female & lesbian they're included in the L part
'+' ...is what the hell & definitely nothing to do with lesbians
So the only emphasis of the email to the entire workplace was to make LVW inclusive of most alphabet people especially the poor oppressed males, but excluding transmen. Nice eh? Lesbians have to be the coat holders for everyone else but can't even have a lesbian visibility week that actually centres them. I may have sworn several times reading that pile of steaming nonsense.