Where do people insist it never happens? I see a lot of beef with the FtMs which they might even see as hateful, because you have some that seem to double down to make away with sex-based rights and the like, see ACLU lawyers. People are not blindly praising them just because they are female - not from what I've seen.

Of course, though, it will be an issue that most women won't pay attention to - because it just has nothing to do with their lives. Straight feminists, for instance, can be quite against lesbians at times. I am not surprised that gay men are even further away from their attention. That's why you need to stand up for yourself, and as LGB, I think. Because I know that many of these heterosexual women just won't get it, and I know that because I've had a lot of shit from them over the years, too. I have stopped expecting to go along with lots of groups just because there's alignment in a few of our "causes". That's why I am glad about any LGB space created. Being homosexual is a different life experience and while I will never know what it's like as a gay man, I know that same-sex attraction is something that you and I share, and which has definitely shaped us.