I read a study that looked at young adults and compared and contrasted the difference between boys coming out as gay and young women coming out as lesbian. It found that (on average) males declare a sexual identity around 16-18 years old, but females are between 22 and 24 before they come out. This was listed as a leading cause of the incredible increase in a trans identity for women (as opposed to men). Boys recognise they are gay, not women, but women get sidetracked into "being trans" when in reality they are lesbians who are being diverted from their same sex attraction.
I think it's partly that but also a lot of it is girls who might grow into heterosexual woman just adopting the new socially endorsed form of misogyny-driven self hatred.
Thank you, beautiful lesbians, for speaking up for lesbians and our herstory, culture, and feminist politics. Bio-phobia (an irrational fear of nature, including of one's own biological sex) and bio-phobes have all but dismantled our culture, politics, gatherings, herstory, and our rights. Many of us are up there in age, are no longer able to be physically active, or have died. It gives me hope, what you are doing. We need to be doing such actions all over the world.
If only I could even *find* feminist lesbians, or simply bio-realist feminists, to do this work with in my own city of 200,000 in California.
The history on the map is inspiring - if only women could get a chance to read it. There used to be so much going on for lesbians, organised by lesbians, compared to nowadays ... according to some of the women who commented on the current situation while making their way into the fair that day.
I read a study that looked at young adults and compared and contrasted the difference between boys coming out as gay and young women coming out as lesbian. It found that (on average) males declare a sexual identity around 16-18 years old, but females are between 22 and 24 before they come out. This was listed as a leading cause of the incredible increase in a trans identity for women (as opposed to men). Boys recognise they are gay, not women, but women get sidetracked into "being trans" when in reality they are lesbians who are being diverted from their same sex attraction.
I think it's partly that but also a lot of it is girls who might grow into heterosexual woman just adopting the new socially endorsed form of misogyny-driven self hatred.
Thank you, beautiful lesbians, for speaking up for lesbians and our herstory, culture, and feminist politics. Bio-phobia (an irrational fear of nature, including of one's own biological sex) and bio-phobes have all but dismantled our culture, politics, gatherings, herstory, and our rights. Many of us are up there in age, are no longer able to be physically active, or have died. It gives me hope, what you are doing. We need to be doing such actions all over the world.
If only I could even *find* feminist lesbians, or simply bio-realist feminists, to do this work with in my own city of 200,000 in California.
I'm working on it, though.
Thanks again <3.
Oh I'm sorry you haven't yet found a support group over there!
The history on the map is inspiring - if only women could get a chance to read it. There used to be so much going on for lesbians, organised by lesbians, compared to nowadays ... according to some of the women who commented on the current situation while making their way into the fair that day.
Yes, I'd love to read the text. I'm sure others would too.