Twitter | Twitch Meta | Bi/Pan Lesbian Discourse
There are some unscrupulous folks on Twitter going around capitalizing on Twitch's "womxn" screwup to throw pan and bi lesbians under the bus.
I don't really need to explain why excluding pan/bi lesbians is bad, but a brief explanation is that the exclusionary rhetoric uses the same ones TERFs use to exclude trans women.
What makes this sinister is that they are going around mislabeling pan and bi lesbians as TERF-adjacent. Likely to cause community infighting.
Don't fall for it.
Twitter | Twitch Meta | Bi/Pan Lesbian Discourse
@FreyaManibrandr Luckily for me at least I'm old and.... wise maybe? I don't know basically I've seen these tactic applied so often to other groups I'm pretty good at not being lured into that stuff anymore. Any discourse that seems to be "hate this very small subset of marginalized humans for causing barely if at all tangible harm" is definitely being pushed for extremely sinister reasons.
Twitter | Twitch Meta | Bi/Pan Lesbian Discourse
@FreyaManibrandr Hell I've been around the track enough to know TERFs hate any queer label that doesn't conform to a very strict social binary so the fact people have tried to claim bi and pan lesbians are a "terf thing" is like the biggest red flag of a psyop. They may as well claim being genderflux or something is a terf thing it makes as much sense given their overall ideology.
re: Twitter | Twitch Meta | Bi/Pan Lesbian Discourse
@FamiliarAlien Julayla: This is generally true, yes. It's also worth mentioning that I am a pan lesbian, and I call myself that because I am more attracted to femininity, but also anyone who holds that feminine quality in themselves. I am also dating my headmate Valerie, who is nonbinary and femme.
Valerie: Right at the start I knew the whole discourse about how bi/pan lesbians are somehow evil is rotten. It reeks of gatekeeping, and it invalidates Julayla.
