A survey by a group has stirred up a lot of dust, which revealed that the majority of lesbian women face serious accusations and threats if they refuse to sleep with transgender women. The BBC produced a shocking report on the phenomenon, and a lawyer also reported on her personal experience. Transgenders did not fail to respond either, with many thousands accusing those involved of transphobia in open letters.

A 43-year-old lesbian lawyer claims to have seen first-hand how people who identify as transgender harass and coerce naive and vulnerable young lesbian girls, the Daily Mail reported.

Former firefighter-turned-lawyer Lucy Masoud spoke out after a BBC report revealed lesbians faced accusations of transphobia and threats of violence if they admitted they were not attracted to transgender women. She added that she thinks it's really sinister and violent that if she doesn't sleep with people who are biologically male, she's labeled a bigot or a transphobe.

As the survey of the campaign group Get the L Out revealed, it is not at all rare for a lesbian to find herself in such a situation. More than half of the eighty women interviewed by the group reported being pressured or coerced into accepting a transgender woman as a sexual partner. A total of 66 percent said they felt intimidated or threatened in LGBTQ groups.

" What I see in the clubs is that young lesbians who are a bit naive are basically being forced to have sex with people who describe themselves as women, but clearly aren't," Masoud explained to online medium Femail .

She says it's outrageous that when young lesbian girls try to say no, they're accused of being transphobic or bigoted.

He was also banned from a dating site for his views

The lawyer confirmed the results of the survey with personal experiences.

„We meet transgender women who have not undergone any medical intervention, who have not even tried to change their appearance. They claim to be transgender, non-binary or genderfluid and self-identified as lesbian. They can identify themselves however they want, it doesn't affect my life.

But the difficulty comes when these people then demand that lesbians accept them as lesbians and date them”

he explained.

Continuing her personal experience, Lucy Masoud recounted being banned from dating site Hinge after she wrote that she only wanted to meet people who were "biologically female". At first, she set her profile to "female seeking female," only to find that every third or fourth hit was a transgender woman. She then amended her profile: "All I ask is that you be accurate, don't be bothered by me loving Love Island too much and be biologically female."

Shortly after saving her new preferences, she was permanently banned from the app for transphobia. " It was clear that several people complained about my profile, saying that I was transphobic, " he underlined.

" When I was 16, I was happy to announce that I was a lesbian, that I was attracted to people of the same sex, and that I only slept with women. Now I can't do that because they immediately accuse me of being a bigot and a transphobe, which seems crazy to me. "As a 43-year-old woman, I'm less safe now saying that I'm attracted to the same sex than I was when I was 16, " she admitted.

Hard threats, emotional blackmail

Following a survey by the Get the L Out group, the BBC spoke to three lesbian women using pseudonyms. Interviewees said they faced serious threats and emotional blackmail after declaring that they did not want to have sex with transgender women.

One of them, Jennine, who is only attracted to biological women, said she was called a transphobe, a genital fetishist, a pervert, and a "terf" (trans-exclusionist radical feminist).

He told the BBC that

when he refused the approach, they told him that if they were in the same room with him and Hitler, they would rather strangle him with a belt.

" It was such a bizarrely violent statement that it stuck. "Simply because I'm not attracted to transgender women, " he said.

Another woman, who used the pseudonym Chloe, said she felt so much external pressure at university that she ended up sleeping with a transgender woman, despite repeated attempts to explain that she was not attracted to her. She added: according to the idea of ​​transgender women, lesbians are attracted to gender, not biological sex, but she was unable to feel that way, so she hated every minute of being together.

The BBC has also been accused of transphobia

The BBC's fact-finding report received an unexpected reaction from the LGBTQ community. They sent an open letter to the editors with the signatures of thousands of transgender people, in which they condemn the author of the article and the editors, as they think they are deliberately trying to make their group impossible.

" The article's conclusions suggest that transgender women pose a risk to cisgender lesbians in large enough numbers to be newsworthy, and that the public should view this as a general phenomenon rather than an incredibly rare, isolated experience," they said in the open letter .

They wrote that the article dangerously frames the issue as a widespread problem while acknowledging that there is no actual evidence for it beyond isolated claims.

Source: hirado.hu

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