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you wanna know what pisses me off the most about the constant invalidation of lesbians i see on the tl every other week? itâs how i see other lesbians begin to question their identity and their value. (thread)
itâs how i see people afraid of using the label because âwhat if iâm faking?â or âwhat if iâm actually not? then iâll be perpetuating the stereotype...â no!!! there is absolutely NOTHING harmful about trying the label only to realize that itâs not right for you.
you donât just figure your sexuality out in one night, or after one label. many lesbians have tried other labels only to realize itâs not right for them. and many people have identified as lesbians only to realize that theyâre not. and thatâs okay!! thatâs what labels are for.
you arenât perpetuating any stereotypes and you arenât harming the communities at all. what IS harming our community is people claiming to be lesbians when theyâre still KNOWINGLY attracted to men (bi and pan lesbians for example). lesbians are NOT attracted to men.
if youâve been or thought you were attracted to men in the past but you no longer are? yes you are still a lesbian. âbut what if i find the right man in the future?â sexuality isnât about the past or the possible future. itâs about the present.
iâve had so many people message me either afraid to identity as a lesbian, or question their validity because of lesbophobia on the timeline and in society as a whole.
so to the people who âidentifyâ as bi/pan lesbians, to the non lesbians who tweet lesbian âhot takesâ which are actually incredibly lesbophobic, to people who call us terfs when we say sometning you donât like: FUCK. YOU.
and to my lesbian mutuals and any other lesbians this may reach, no matter how much lesbophobia is tweeted, said, yelled at us, we are a community. donât lose hope. your attraction to women is beautiful and your community is here for you 
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