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A 2001 article on differentiating lesbians for medical studies and health research suggested identifying lesbians using the three characteristics of identity only, sexual behavior only, or both combined. The article declined to include desire or attraction as it rarely has bearing on measurable health or psychosocial issues. [30]
A transsexual person is born with the physical characteristics of one sex who psychologically and emotionally identifies with a variant or different gender than their physical sex characteristics. [ 73 ] [ 74 ] Stereotypes of trans women include them always being taller and having larger hands than cisgender women. [ 75 ]
The Queen's Vernacular claimed a butch was "a lesbian with masculine characteristics." [ 8 ] In Of Catamites and Kings , Gayle Rubin describes a butch as those lesbians who use masculine mannerisms, and/or who wear traditionally male clothing, and/or who experience gender dysphoria . [ 9 ]
Older LGBTQ+ people are much more likely to identify as gay or lesbian. These figures are consistent globally. Ipsos polling for 2024 across 26 countries found that 17% of Gen Zers identified as ...
Lesbian separatists such as Sheila Jeffreys argued that all forms of masculinity, including masculine butch women, were negative and harmful to women. [69] The group of radical lesbians often credited with sparking lesbian feminism, Radicalesbians, called butch culture "male-identified role-playing among lesbians". [70]
Lesbian culture since the late 20th century has often been entwined with the evolution of feminism. Lesbian separatism is an example of a lesbian theory and practice identifying specifically lesbian interests and ideas and promoting a specific lesbian culture. [8] [9] [10] Examples of this included womyn's land and women's music. Identity-based ...
Sexual diversity or gender and sexual diversity (GSD), refers to all the diversities of sex characteristics, sexual orientations and gender identities, without the need to specify each of the identities, behaviors, or characteristics that form this plurality. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The history of lesbian fashion, she added, has been characterized by binaries, where there is a “push and pull” between butch and femme styles of dressing.