Unfortunately girls were always targeted for refusing to be a supporter, a carer. And lesbians are more prone to be pressured simply because we are a minority and nobody will come to our defense. So we will have to, yet again, toughen up and stand our ground.

And like you mention these young people are just that - young. Most of them are not in the mindspace of battling activists. Probably all they are used to and all they want to do is have a good time with friends online - share memes and opinions about pop culture or common interests. They don't want to be in a space where they have to be constantly upset at the representatives of the trans community, who they are told is the most vulnerable. They'd feel terrible being on gender critical, for instance, and understandably so.

And this is where the tone and the content of the discourse comes up. I'd love this forum to be the opposite of the negativity on other platforms. Where Instagram and tiktok are about personal brands and impressing your peers, I wish here was about real, down to earth people having honest discussions, where twitter and reddit are filled with mysoginy and wokeness, I wish here was about the diversity and complexity of life and view points, a place where we can dissect an argument and laugh at our own silliness in the same breath. So far, the discussions on this forum have been just like that and that's why I like it. But the question is would young people like it? And should we expect them too join this forum? I think the 'influencer sapphics' wouldnt be caught near here, but the people who most need it, the young lesbians, isolated from their community for one reason or another, will find their place here and will appreciate it.