FAQs or rather FNAs*
* Frequently Needed Answers: What you’ve always wanted to know, but never dared to ask.
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Yes, LAVA is short for “Lesbian Action for Visibility Aotearoa”
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Some lesbians are human female teenagers, so almost adults.
All other lesbians are adult human females.
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YES.
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NEVER.
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OF COURSE NOT!
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NO.
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No, “lesbian” is a sexual orientation:
An adult human of the female sex being exclusively attracted to other adult humans of the female sex. There is no evidence that gender identity even exists.
When you just thought this was all you could ask…
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LAVA is working towards visibility at all levels – social and political – so that our existence, our needs and our contributions are valued. We believe it is critically important to be visible to young lesbians so they can see themselves reflected in the world.
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Most young women don’t call themselves lesbian anyway. They prefer “queer”.
LESBIAN is the only English word that means a woman who is sexually attracted to women. It is the only word that clearly and unambiguously says who we are. We are proud of being lesbians and love being part of lesbian community and will not hide behind ambiguous labels.
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Lesbians are constantly vilified and excluded from the so-called LGBT community for defining women as adult human females and ourselves as women who are exclusively same-sex attracted. We are called TERFs if we say “transwomen” are men. We are called transphobic and transexclusive if we refuse to accept males who demand we accept them as women in our spaces or as our sexual partners. Parts of our own community denies us the right to define who we are. Our rights are being ignored and lesbian sexual orientation is treated as problematic and even harmful to males who demand we pretend they are women. That’s why.
^Here’s a lesbian feminist with a primer on why lesbians are talking about this.
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We are not constantly talking about toilets. Instead, we let the incisive TT Exulansic speak.
“Why is a transwoman’s fear of male bathroom violence valid, but a woman’s fear of male bathroom violence is obviously bigotry?”
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This unsavoury melee is a full-blown “culture war”. Irish journalist and author of the book “Trans”, Helen Joyce, was asked if there is any chance of having a reasonable debate about this, so let’s hear what she has to say:
We agree.
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Every human has human rights. Human rights for people who pretend to be the opposite sex and demand of others to go along with that charade are not an extension of gay rights.
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No, the existence of intersex people does not prove sex is on a spectrum. Intersex conditions are not common.
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No one knows the exact figure but we will have more of an idea after the 2023 census, which will have a “gender identity” question for the first time.
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Not any more.
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No.
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No. Language is everything. And here’s Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull explaining why:
Much has been written about the importance of language, and the writings of those who oppose gender identity ideology are getting clearer and more graphic. This seems to be the inevitable result of the garbled, twisted, blurred language of the gender identity activists. Why are they doing this, we might ask. One who doesn’t mince her words is Eliza Mondegreen, who in her blog Writing Behavior explains The new global empire of disembodiment. Loading the language to sell dissociation, goods, and services.
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No.
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No idea. Is there one?
^Here’s a lesbian feminist with a primer on why lesbians are talking about this:
^^Hear what Helen Joyce has to say:
^^^Kellie-Jay Keen on clear language: