Lesbians No Longer: A Transgender Trip into Heteronormality

[Shana A]

Lesbians No Longer: A Transgender Trip into Heteronormality

By Lilly O'Donnell

http://www.vice.com/read/lesbians-no-longer

Sadie calls herself a failed lesbian. She's had sex with three women in her life, and all three of them are now in various stages of becoming men. This includes her partner of two and a half years. When Sadie fell in love with Marco, he was a woman named Erica.

Suddenly, at age 25, when Sadie thought she had a pretty good idea of who she was and had become comfortable identifying as a lesbian, she has found herself in a committed, heterosexual relationship with a man. And not just with any man, but one who wants to distance himself from any queer identity he once had, taking Sadie with him. She and Marco are in limbo between their two identities—not quite your average straight couple, but no longer a lesbian couple, either.