The main thing you hear people say that identifying as bi/pan lesbian somehow invalidates both lesbians and bi/pan people
how exactly that's supposed to work I'm not sure
It's holding on to the idea that lesbians can only ever be binary women in love with other binary women
it is an extremely unnuanced position that ends up completely discrediting the many non-binary people who identify with feminine labels
and the many people attracted to feminine non-binary people as well as binary women or those who are like.. 95% attracted to femme people except for the odd man or masculine person, which apparently immediately disqualifies them from identifying as a lesbian
I genuinely don't know where anyone's getting the bullshit from that the concept of bi lesibians was made up by terfs to somehow invalidate trans women's identities as women
that's a leap of logic that I don't think I could explain
two women, cis or trans, in a relationship is still a very lesbian thing... the existence of bi/pan lesbians changes nothing about that?
A lot of it is also just assholes getting upset over smaller distinctions and nuances in labels because I guess seeing anything with a hint of nuance just upsets them
while a bi lesbian can be a woman who is almost entirely but not entirely attracted to other women, I've found that many of them are women or feminine non-binary people attracted to women, as well as other feminine genders and presentations and they find that nuance important enough to be a part of the label they identify with, without sacrificing the comfort they get from identifying as lesbian
as for me, I'm a feminine non binary person who almost exclusively likes femininity but also very occasionally more masculine presenting people
I find the term pan to be fitting but not nuanced enough to really convey every important aspect of my identity
I've seen people argue that I could just use WLW or sapphic instead of appropriating lesbianism but the problem is that WLW ends up being similarly unnuanced to convey my identity, plus not being very convenient as a label and sapphic relates right back to lesbianism so there's not really a meaningful distinction there, besides sapphic being less common
and there's also just the simple fact that I don't think I need to explain why lesbian feels the most accurate to me
the same way I don't need to explain why feminine agender feels to represent me better than any other label
Gender and attraction are very complicated and nuanced, bi/pan lesbian exclusionism can take many shapes
from non-binary erasure to extremely unnuanced views of gender/sexuality /endofpanda