Standing Shoulder To Shoulder With Us.

How many time have you heard trans people criticizing lesbians, well we should not paint with a broad brush. There are a lot more lesbians that have our backs.

Lesbians stand by trans women in open letter after 'dangerous' BBC article
The article quotes three unnamed lesbians who said they had been coerced into dating trans women, and used research many have criticized as biased.
NBC Out
By Jo Yurcaba
October 28, 2021


Lesbians defended transgender women on social media Wednesday after the BBC published an article that many critics said made "dangerous" claims that painted all transgender women as sexual predators.

The article, published Tuesday, is titled "We're being pressured into sex by some trans women." It quotes about half a dozen lesbians —including three who went by pseudonyms and three figureheads from groups that push anti-trans messages, such as the LGB Alliance and Get The L Out — who say cisgender lesbians are being pressured to date trans women out of fear that they'll be criticized for being transphobic. One woman said a trans woman pressured her into penetrative sex.

The article has faced widespread criticism online and has been denounced by tens of thousands of cisgender women, many of them self-identified lesbians, using the hashtag #CisWithTheT, which was created by Max Morgan, an LGBTQ rights activist and podcaster (cisgender refers to someone who identifies with the gender they were assigned at birth).

The BBC didn’t even follow their own guidelines,

The survey, by Get the L Out — a lesbian activist group that advocates for separating the “L” from the acronym “LGBTQ” because it opposes trans rights — found that 56 percent of lesbian respondents reported being pressured or coerced to accept a trans woman as a sexual partner, though critics have noted that the sample size was only 80 people. The BBC's guidelines state that it should not report self-selecting questionnaires "in a way which leads our audience to believe they are more robust than they are."

The BBC article triggered an article the Telegraph as reported in Yahoo News.

BBC accused of being ‘transphobic’ as 20,000 speak out against article
By India McTaggart
November 1, 2021


The BBC has defended an article which some campaigners claimed was transphobic.

The article featured interviews with lesbians who said they have been pressured into having sex with trans women.
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The article also included a social media survey of 80 lesbians, of which 56 per cent said they had been pressured or coerced to accept a trans woman as a sexual partner.
But there was a huge pushback to the Telegraph article including one of the people interviewed.
Though many of the critics validated the experience of the woman who said she was assaulted, they noted that the BBC article attempts to "weaponize" her story against all trans women.

"Some more lesbians talking about trans rights.... The reality that the BBC is desperate to obfuscate in an attempt to demonise trans women, and infantilise and weaponise cis women," another person wrote alongside a video of lesbians defending trans women.

Some cis women also criticized the article for attempting to speak for all lesbians.

"Cis lesbian here; I am not threatened by trans women using female spaces (where they belong) or using the term ‘lesbian,'" another woman wrote. "What I /am/ threatened by is people constantly weaponising me against my trans sisters and policing gender non-conformity."

I only had one problem with lesbian and that was about twenty years ago in Ogunquit ME all my other interactions with lesbians have but positives.

Before the plague I used to go to game night once a month with a group of lesbians, I have been invited to share a hot tube with them, I worked with them to pass the gender inclusive non-discrimination law.

There were only two people that I trusted to teach about us and both of them were lesbians, sadly one passed away suddenly two weeks ago.

We have to get the chip off of our shoulders and not paint all lesbian with the actions of a few.