(08-11-2013, 12:56 PM)Lake Desire Wrote: Yeah, there's still a lot of work to be done. Â Mainstream gay rights organizations like HRC have even sacrificed trans issues to try and appear more mainstream. Â Organizations have done that with us bi/pan folks too but not to the same extent. Â I actually have gotten more biphobia from lesbians than straight people; think I am not really queer, selling out when dating male-assigned people, etc. Â (For disclosure, I am not really into binary gender for myself but mostly regarded as a ciswoman.)
That's really a shame. One of my two best friends is an FtM. He actually just got a job and is so excited, but yeah even some of his fellow LGBT coworkers are a little jilted by his sexual identity.
And I am a lesbian, but I know exactly what you mean about the misguided views lesbians tend to have on bisexual women. Every time I see: "Well, she said she was bi, but she ended up marrying a man. Guess she really was just straight." I just roll my eyes. And I rebuttal, "So if she married a woman, she'd really be a lesbian?"
Somehow that never seems to piece together.
