Meanwhile, lesbians are bombarded with suggestions on “ how to have lesbian sex with a trans woman”. Suggested reading Stella Creasy's bourgeois feminism A surprising number of hardline activists vilify lesbians as “genital fetishists” and accuse them of practising “ sexual apartheid ”. Now same-sex attraction is out, redefined as a problematic “genital preference”. It started with the push to redefine “lesbian” to be inclusive of heterosexual males who identify as women. But what you won’t see or hear is the underside of Pride: a culture of intense social and sexual pressure that’s pushing some lesbians back into the closet and encouraging others to identify out of womanhood altogether. This month, media organisations and mega corporations will bend over backwards to find an LGBTQ angle to cover. Joan of Arc - the subject of Gage’s cancelled play - has undergone a posthumous transition nearly 600 years after she was burned at the stake. Even gender-nonconforming girls and women from the past fall victim to the new gender creed.
Lesbian role models such as Ellen (now Elliot) Page come out as transgender.
Lesbian playwrights such as Carolyn Gage see their plays shelved. Over the past 20 years, bars, bookstores, and festivals, once set aside for women attracted to other women, have rebranded themselves as “trans-inclusive” or “queer”, shut down, or gone underground. These days, a woman who calls herself a lesbian invites suspicion.
