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[–]hufflepuff-poet 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Right! Accepting that I was a lesbian and that it was the word that described my sexual orientation was a hard road I travelled. I'm happy being a lesbian now but not because I love the label, it's because accepting the label meant I stopped running from who I was and who I loved and finally just listened to what my body wanted instead of what society said I had to want. It's so demeaning to how hard it is to be homosexual in a heterosexual world when TQ+ pretend that lesbianism isn't about being a female homosexual.

I'm not a lesbian because I want to be, I'm a lesbian because my only other option is being a closeted lesbian and that was miserable. (Guess I could be a straight trans man too, but that sounds worse than miserable...)