Wednesday, August 01, 2018

Can Men Who Claim to Be Women Be Lesbian?

The transexual train has run into a lesbian wall called "Stonewall". Stonewall is a group in the U.K. that is all things LGBT and whose mission statement is,
"We're here to let all lesbian, gay, bi and trans people, here and abroad, know they're not alone.
We believe we're stronger united, so we partner with organisations that help us create real change for the better. We have laid deep foundations across Britain - in some of our greatest institutions - so our communities can continue to find ways to flourish, and individuals can reach their full potential. We’re here to support those who can’t yet be themselves.
But our work is not finished yet. Not until everyone feels free to be who they are, wherever they are."
Their mission that everyone should "feel free to be who they are" is causing the ruckus. A person's identity is now based on feelings which of course are forever subjective to change, and this becomes a problem when a transexual genetic and anatomic male who identifies as a woman decides he is still sexually attracted to genetic and anatomic females. Stonewall apparently decided to address this sticky situation by asserting that such an individual can call themselves a lesbian.  This ruffled some "real lesbians" as reported in The Times,

"Lesbians have accused Stonewall, the gay rights organisation, of erasing biological women by saying that 'male-bodied persons with penises' can be lesbians.
The Lesbian Rights Alliance (LRA) has sent an open letter to Stonewall demanding that it take the L out of LGBTQ because it makes 'lesbians invisible and erases lesbians through its promotion of the Trans Agenda”'.
The 135 signatories say that Stonewall supports the 'absurd idea that male-bodied persons with penises can be lesbians'.
They say that lesbians are biological women who are sexually attracted to, and have sexual and emotional relationships with other biological women only.
They wrote: 'If we refuse to accept these men as lesbians you label us transphobes and ‘Terfs’, unleashing a torrent of hate speech upon us from your supporters.'
Transgender activists refer to women who disagree with them as 'Terfs' — trans-exclusionary radical feminists.
The LRA said: 'We urge you to stop claiming to represent us and leave the L out.'”
Just to show you how out of touch I have been, this is the first time that I have learned of the term "Terf — trans-exclusionary radical feminists".

This whole thing is ironic to me because for years I endured the teaching of a revisionist priest who at every opportunity derided "American individualism" yet he was fully supportive of the LGBTQ agenda, an agenda which is all about people being "free to be who they are, wherever they are."

At some point absolute freedom disintegrates into things like an LRA Terf war over an LGBTQ Stonewall. One might say that absolute freedom perverts absolutely.

Before I get caught in the crossfire, I'm getting the L out.





5 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:09 AM

    Self absorption knows no boundaries.

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  2. Revolutionaries turning on each other. Off with their heads, they cry! At least the lesbians are still grounded in biological reality. They know they're women, and that men who claim to be women, aren't women.

    And thanks for the laugh! Wish we could all get the L out of the insanity.

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  3. "Flourish" That seems to be the word du jour these days.

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  4. They keep using that word. I don't think it means what they say it means.

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