I think that there are a number of reasons why in the transgender world there are a disproportionately higher number of "lesbians". I have all of my life been attracted to both men and women. I have acted on both attractions. I have ended up finding my life companion in a woman. I am not giving up the love of my life just because I am attracted to men also.

7% is the approximate number of actual lesbians in the general population.

The higher number of lesbians in transgender world is rooted in the fact that not every transgender person is a transsexual. Gender variance as a condition is completely different from transsexualism. The fundamental premise of transsexualism is that you must change you physical sex to obtain the closest approximation to congruence with the female form and biology that is available. The person is born in a sex opposite to the one they perceive themselves in. Those people will with the exception of the 7% mentioned above and a percentage of bi-sexual persons be heterosexual to their perceived sex.

People with gender variance are a completely different matter. They travel the boundaries of the gender divide but are not transsexual. Many will present as female but do not want to change their sex. That is their prerogative but it means that they are not transsexuals. The number of gender variant people who believe they are transsexuals is astonishing because it appears to confer some classification on them that really is not theirs. Among those gender variant people there are a disproportionate higher number of persons presenting as women who are solely attracted to women. The sad part is that instead of owning what they are namely gender variant many perform incredible acts of mental twisting to arrive at a point where they are lesbians, when in fact they are gender variant heterosexuals, very often not wanting to change their anatomy to be congruent.

No manner of name calling and attempts to discredit this will change it.

This is really an interesting conversation because it illuminates an issue that has been on my mind for a long time.