Why are lesbians even talking about “trans” issues and gender identity - why do we care about it?

Lesbians are constantly vilified and excluded from the so-called LGBT community for defining women as adult human females and ourselves as women who are exclusively same-sex attracted. We are called TERFs if we say “transwomen” are men. We are called “transphobic” and “transexclusionary” if we refuse to accept males who demand we accept them as women in our spaces or as our sexual partners. Our own community denies us the right to define who we are. Our rights are being ignored and lesbian sexual orientation is treated as problematic and even harmful to males who demand we pretend they are women.

We believe gender ideology serves male interests and is inherently misogynistic. To believe that gender, a made-up construct, supersedes biological reality, is women-hating. Denying biological reality is to deny women’s oppression on the basis of sex. It is to deny that men have material advantage over women in our society and that they have power and privilege at the expense of women.

Sex-role stereotypes, promoted by gender ideology, support and maintain heteronormativity whereas lesbians by our very existence challenge heteronormative values and encourage non-compliance with male and female stereotypes.

We care about the women and children who have been captured by “trans” ideology, who are in pursuit of a stereotypical identity, whose bodies are being mutilated and who are being supplied with dangerous drugs with irreversible side effects.

We believe the huge increase in young women “transitioning” (5000% increase in less than 10 years) is a reflection of how unappealing it is to be an adult human female in this world. We want to provide role models for young women, particularly for young lesbians. We want to tell them that not conforming to traditional sex-role stereotypes is a time-honoured lesbian tradition and a sign of good health. We were the original gender non-conformists.