Speaking as a butch lesbian, even if “there are less butches because more people are identifying as trans men/nb” were true, it would be unequivocally a good thing.

I don’t need more people identifying as butch. I want more people coming home to identities that are true to them.

Literally what is the logic behind seeing people just settling for butch/lesbian identity because they don’t have other words to speak more accurately to their experience something positive for butch/lesbian identity? Cause that sounds like shit to me!

Also, said it before and I’ll say it again, from my personal experience as a butch I’ve experienced FAR more extra+intracommunity pressure to present more feminine than I’ve EVER been pressured to transition.

It’s time to stop blaming trans men and transmasc folks for there being less butches and gnc women around when the actual cause is that y’all keep insisting that we have ‘masculine privilege’ and use that language to keep us out of the only spaces we hope to find safety in.

^^ and of course the normal compulsory femininity we’ve always experienced and been fucked up by in the heteronormative world that often comes with the threat of violence. Sad as fuck that that rhetoric is creeping its way more and more into lgbtqia circles.

Also, fuck Glenn Greenwald

Also this! In fact, I am one of them! https://twitter.com/afrodykee/status/1380284155490107392