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METAWhy Do You Want To "Drop The T"?

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[–]SeahorseLTHarold, they're lesbians! 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago* (0 children)

I have had people outright ask me whether I was non-binary or genderfluid because of the way I dress. Hell nah, I'm a lesbian (it has always been part of lesbian culture to have all kinds of ways to express yourself as a woman!!) and I've always liked to wear stuff that I feel comfortable in, and sometimes that's more of this and sometimes more of that. And I'm okay with that because I know that underneath my clothes I'm always gonna be me.

Being a lesbian is a huge part of my story, my journey to accepting myself with this body - a female body - and what it can do, so why on earth should I try and deny that lesbian just means homosexual woman and base my self-worth on clothes, make-up and some other outwardly signs of "gender" and "femininity" to fit within their definition and pretend that this changes the immutable foundations of my being?

And I hate that I am being told that this must mean I am somehow something else than that which I am. And that I am wrong if I am like that - that it means I am something they know better about me and make me want to adopt. I've been attracted to butch women, I've been attracted to femmes. I've been attracted to all kinds of women because I like women. That's it. It doesn't mean that I am fluid and one day, am a man and the other more this or that. It just means that I am myself and like other women. That's literally it.