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A nice debunk of the transphobic trope of ‘lesbian erasure’

The truth about ‘lesbian erasure’ - Overland literary journal

https://overland.org.au/2023/09/the-truth-about-lesbian-erasure/

It seems lesbian identity has become something of a cause célèbre for the global right, providing pseudo-progressive cover to anti-trans hate. Lesbians, the logic runs, are women who are exclusively sexually attracted to other women, and therefore uniquely clear-sighted about what the most important and defining part of any woman is: the pussy.

The truth about ‘lesbian erasure’ - Overland literary journal

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gromnar

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I may well be wrong and too naive, but I think the hate is in many cases rooted in the scary idea that they could find them attractive. And so they signal that "it could never happen to them" and that they are doing it to protect other, weaker people.

WalrusDragonOnABike

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True, that too. But that's partly an issue because they don't see them as their gender to begin with and are also homophobic. And homophobia generally also ties back into sexism.