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She Finally Peaked
Around 4 or 5 years ago I was speaking to the only lesbian in the village, a 68 year old butch woman, about the transgender issue. I thought she would have known all about men calling themselves lesbians, the erasure of women's spaces, men calling themselves women being placed in women's prisons, and everything else that was going on. I was wrong. She said "transwomen" were no threat to lesbians or other women. She was shocked at my transphobia. I never brought up the subject with her again......until last night.
Last night we were both volunteering at the same place and we got to gossiping. We somehow got onto the subject of the rainbow flag, and I said how many lesbians I know can't stand the rainbow now because it isn't about LGB anymore. She said, "I know, it's all about the transes now." I was gobsmacked.
I prodded a bit further and it all came out. Transbians, AGPs, men in women's prisons, etc, etc, etc. She hated it all. Everything she had disagreed with me on 5 years ago she was now complaining about. Another volunteer, a man of 71, joined in the conversation just as we got to AGPs coming out when their wives were pregnant or when their daughter's hit puberty. He asked why that was, so I explained about period fetish, pregnancy and breastfeeding fetish, schoolgirl bra shopping/pillow fight fetish etc, and told them all (there were others who had stopped to listen by then) about paraphilias. We concluded with a discussion on how some in the trans lobby want pedophilia to be treated as a sexual orientation like LGB. The shock on their faces was something to behold. By the time the discussion had ended at least 4 volunteers between the ages of 62 and 74 had been well and truly peaked.
It took 4 years for the only lesbian in the village (now 72 years old) to discover, through her own experiences, that transgenderism had erased her already small community and made her lonely life just that little bit worse by making lesbian spaces extinct in our state. It took maybe ten minutes to get the other three people up to speed.
Sometimes it is the people we thought would be easy to peak that are the most resistant to common sense, and those we figured wouldn't want to know about the subject that are the most interested.