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Thank you for sharing all that and opposing the ideology of gender identity. I became friend recently with a twenty-something-year old trans man who is clearly a butch lesbian. I live in France and there is no butch community but a lot of (often toxic) queer communities. It breaks my heart to think that so many young masculine women can only find community and support by choosing the trans path.

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Great article. Was there a contagion element with masculine lesbians becoming trans men? I felt it in the late 90s, although I’m not butch but a fems who digs butch women. In fact I know a couple of butches who said many in the community looked down on them bc they didn’t trans. I felt a lot of the transition was also due to societal unacceptable of masculine women, as you point out.

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