Okay-I’m going to say a deeply unpleasant thing I just realized and then I’m going to go Have A Think.
I suspect that a big part of the lesbian, especially butch lesbian, rejection of trans women, is feeling like their one space has now been invaded and taken over by yet more women doing womanhood better than them.
I’m not saying that makes shit okay. I’m non-binary and, like, I have met trans people ever and I would like them to have a world to live in please and not die.
But I also know that as a butch queer enby lady who doesn’t shave my legs and very much hates makeup, often the only people I actually felt liked me. Or were like me. In the entire queer community.
I still feel that way. Being a woman who’s not a boi but also is not femme makes me a person who does not exist, in the minds of a lot of people.
The people with the same politics as me on paper just seem to make it clear they hate my guts.
So what then?