No one has more labels than the people who hate labels.https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1166365753462771714 …
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The point that’s being made is there’s a difference between sex (binary: M & F), gender (fluid), and sexual orientation. Their gender is non-binary, their sex is female, their orientation is lesbian. The confusion is whether orientation is derived from one’s gender OR one’s sex
"Lesbian" is very clearly and broadly understood as "a woman who is attracted to women." If you're not a woman, it's silly to complain if others refuse to refer to you as a lesbian, whether you're a man, non-binary, or any other sort of person who is not a woman.
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I agree that the gender/sex, identity vs. anatomy mess mucks the whole thing up a bit, but if you are a person with female anatomy who absolutely does not want to be regarded as a woman, "lesbian" is a terrible term to assign to yourself.
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While I’m not an advocate for neologisms in this big gender identity melting pot, it appears to be the only solution. In the interim, I can understand why “lesbian” was used as a proxy as they are attracted to others of the same sex, and both (presumably) have female anatomy
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If you think my remarks are disparaging, you have lived a charmed fucking life
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