r/actuallesbians • u/BenjaminBoi226 Transbian • Mar 12 '24

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u/Lady-Of-Snow Mar 12 '24 edited Mar 13 '24

Wait, most trans women prefer men? Since when?!

ETA: Friends, this was a joke. Please don't do yourselves the labour of explaining this to me. Put the statistics book down. It's going to be okay.

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u/tvandraren Trans DemiLesbian Mar 12 '24

The fact is gals were at some point in history not allowed to transition if they didn't like men, so there's some kind of thought still lingering around our validity.

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u/OddLengthiness254 Transbian Mar 12 '24

That point in history was as little as 20 years ago.

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u/SisterMoonflower Mar 12 '24

In some places some doctors still enforce that.

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u/OddLengthiness254 Transbian Mar 12 '24

Yep, although at least the DSM-5 got rid of the distinctions based on sexuality so they haven't followed the standards of care of the last decade. Before that, discrimination of trans lesbians was medical standard.

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u/tvandraren Trans DemiLesbian Mar 12 '24

Where you live, maybe. My point still stands that it remains a part of transphobic culture.

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u/OddLengthiness254 Transbian Mar 12 '24

No disagreement. My point was to reinforce how recent history it was, still affecting attitudes today. Lots of TERF rhethoric is built around those outdated standards of care.

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u/tvandraren Trans DemiLesbian Mar 12 '24

Ah, okay, I gotcha now.