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Writer & horror nerd 🦇
Writer & horror nerd 🦇
want to time travel and give Samuel Taylor Coleridge little cheers of encouragement so he can finish writing Christabel and we can update his wikipedia page
June 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
want to time travel and give Samuel Taylor Coleridge little cheers of encouragement so he can finish writing Christabel and we can update his wikipedia page
the queerness of trans women and lesbians and lesbian trans women will never be confined to any ruling or simple terms. lesbian love is boundless and limitless and unapologetically queer and it always has been 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
April 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
the queerness of trans women and lesbians and lesbian trans women will never be confined to any ruling or simple terms. lesbian love is boundless and limitless and unapologetically queer and it always has been 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
the fact that the only definitions of lesbian that were considered valid were that of terfs, despite the fact that statistically the vast majority of lesbians do not agree with them is so ridiculous- what the hell is any of this ruling even based on??
Going through the For Some Women decision, and something I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere is that the court took it upon itself to define lesbians in a way that excludes some cis lesbians and includes some straight trans men.
April 28, 2025 at 1:40 AM
the fact that the only definitions of lesbian that were considered valid were that of terfs, despite the fact that statistically the vast majority of lesbians do not agree with them is so ridiculous- what the hell is any of this ruling even based on??
ah yes the very non dystopian situation we're in where some random group of entirely cis and predominantly non lesbian people are making official statements about what it means to be a woman or a lesbian. screw this, trans lesbians have always belonged in the lesbian community and always will
![Perhaps most concerningly, the Supreme Court adopts extremely transphobic rhetoric concerning transfeminine lesbians.
The Court concludes that a lesbian “must be a [AFAB] female who is sexually oriented towards (or attracted to) [AFAB] females”. The Court concludes that female here cannot include trans women, as the “concept of sexual orientation” would be “rendered meaningless”, and in its opinion, wrongly affect the composition of lesbians as a group.
The Court claims this would lead to an “inevitable loss of autonomy and dignity for lesbians”. It points to evidence from gender-critical groups like the LGB Alliance and The Lesbian Project to make this argument. They claim the inclusion of trans women is having a ‘chilling effect on lesbians’ to associate in lesbian-only spaces. The vast majority of lesbians reject this claim.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i7aox3qj5gv2bqvlclpwcw5u/bafkreicrxzlblscgchacobotqqxbvfhiyclwilbbzjs363mwf65meyssly@jpeg)
April 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
ah yes the very non dystopian situation we're in where some random group of entirely cis and predominantly non lesbian people are making official statements about what it means to be a woman or a lesbian. screw this, trans lesbians have always belonged in the lesbian community and always will