Hmm. I'm debating deleting this post, honestly. I kind of wonder whether a lot of people might've upvoted just because of the article's title, which sends a positive message, but didn't notice some of the harmful content.

Related:

• Kathleen Stock just got added as a trustee to LGB Alliance, so her influence will extend beyond just this article.

• LGB Alliance also platforms Sheila Jeffreys, a founder of the feminist group that first promoted "political lesbianism," the idea that women can decide to be lesbians:

Not Jeffreys. She became a lesbian in 1973 because she felt it contradictory to give "her most precious energies to a man" when she was thoroughly committed to a women's revolution. Six years later, she went further and wrote, with others, a pamphlet entitled Love Your Enemy? The Debate Between Heterosexual Feminism And Political Lesbianism. In it, feminists who sleep with men are described as collaborating with the enemy. It caused a huge ruction in the women's movement, and is still cited as an example of early separatists "going way too far".

"We do think," it said, "that all feminists can and should be lesbians. Our definition of a political lesbian is a woman-identified woman who does not fuck men. It does not mean compulsory sexual activity with women." Although many of the more radical feminists agreed, most went wild at being told they were "counter-revolutionary".

source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jul/02/gender.politicsphilosophyandsociety

I'm not trying to be an alarmist here, but I'm concerned about the possibility that in trying to challenge the way that transgender people are stifling our voices, we may run the risk of having radical feminists stifle our voices. The more I read, the more it seems to me that there is a strong undercurrent of bigoted, or at least, downright misleading, beliefs about same-sex attraction in radical feminism.