An excerpt from the research piece linked by the BBC.

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[Highlight] The lesbian body as a battleground [end highlight]

The consequence of systematic lesbian erasure, combined with the male centred politics of the LGBT, is a constant invasion: [Highlight] invasion of lesbian spaces and invasion of the lesbian body as the ultimate women-only space, [end highlight] leading to the destruction of those spaces and the consequent [Highlight] destruction of lesbianism. [end highlight]

Raymond’s work in “The Transsexual Empire” was the first to address transgenderism critically from a lesbian feminist perspective (1995). Raymond firmly attacks the ethics of a medicalised industry profiting financially from the physical castration of members of the community who suffer from failing to fit into the rigid sex stereotype mould. She attacks the individualisation and medicalisation of what she sees as a political problem, as morally questionable, detrimental to society and anti-feminist. Her chapter “Sappho by surgery: The Transsexually constructed Lesbian-Feminist” addresses the issue of transgender males invading lesbian spaces and describes the
case of Sandy Stone (discussed above).

[Highlight] “All transsexuals rape women’s bodies by reducing the real female form to an artefact, appropriating this body for themselves.” (Raymond. 1995: 104) [end highlight]