At the tribunal to decide whether LGB Alliance should lose its charitable status, Kate Harris was asked to define a lesbian. Fighting back tears, she said: “I’m going to speak for millions of lesbians around the world . . . We will not have any man with a penis tell us he’s a lesbian because he feels he is.”
For Harris, 68, and her co-founder Bev Jackson, 72, “What is a lesbian?” is not some new gotcha question. For decades, same sex-attracted women have been told their clubs, events and even dating pool cannot be female only. Trans activists run workshops on “breaking the cotton ceiling”, badgering lesbians to overcome their antipathy to penises.
In the US, two lesbian supporters of the long-running women-only music
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