What was asserted is that individuals of the male sex cannot be lesbian. This is of course based on the understanding that lesbians are, by definition, female and homosexual. From this it is clear that no lesbian is attracted to males or their sexual anatomy.
You say that you do not tolerate homophobic rhetoric, when actually - by stating your intent to censor lesbians and their allies from asserting the fundamental facts of female homosexuality, and prioritizing the sexual desires of heterosexual males who appropriate the language of female homosexuality for themselves - you condone and encourage it.
> No-one in that conversation denied the existence of anyone.
Then go on to deny the existence of trans folks. I ain't going to reply to all your hateful nonsense. Yours is the opinion that crosses over from "I don't want to hang out with trans people" to "I deny trans people", and I don't have to tolerate hateful people.
> What was asserted is that individuals of the male sex cannot be lesbian. This is of course based on the understanding that lesbians are, by definition, female and homosexual. From this it is clear that no lesbian is attracted to males or their sexual anatomy.
> You say that you do not tolerate homophobic rhetoric, when actually - by stating your intent to censor lesbians and their allies from asserting the fundamental facts of female homosexuality, and prioritizing the sexual desires of heterosexual males who appropriate the language of female homosexuality for themselves - you condone and encourage it.
Of course people with a transgender identity exist. This is not in dispute. Relevant to the conversation I quoted earlier, it's abundantly clear that there exist heterosexual males who desire to be female, identify themselves as female, and want everyone else to play along with this fantasy by pretending that they are lesbian women.
Actual lesbian women are not obliged to accept this appropriation, though. If you censor their dissent while promoting the lesbian fantasies of those males, then you are encouraging homophobic rhetoric and are deliberately choosing to make a hostile and unsafe space for lesbians.
Go back to your wizard game or 4chan
I'll disagree, I'm here for all stripes, and I guess I'd consider the vomit emoji to be way ruder than necessary for expressing a simple personal preference, but I'd tolerate that opinion being posted somewhere.
Denying trans people exist is transphobic. It's a ban in my book. If someone says, "I'd like to learn more about the differences between sex and gender... because they seem the same to me" I'm happy to spend basically infinite time teaching/explaining/dialoging. But if you come out with "only two genders" and "lesbians cannot have penises" I'm done conversing and you can get sent packing.
I'm not open to the idea that trans people are an illness any more than I'm open to the idea that gay people are an illness. No time or space in my life for that hate.