ADDITIONAL RESEARCH BY EMILY EATON
The question of whether lesbians support or despise trans people has become a hot issue of late. It’s a topic that was forced to the front of the LGBTQI news agenda in July 2018, when a group of women famously laid down in front of the Pride In London parade claiming that they wanted to “Get the ‘L’ out” (of LGBTQI). In the weeks that followed, Pride marches,
LGBTQI publications and organisations around the country countered that message with impassioned support for trans people and a volley of alternative slogans. My local Pride was led by women holding a large banner proclaiming “Manchester Lesbians Stand By Your Trans”.