In 2016, a then-puzzling study was published that showed that approximately one in five sexually active, openly lesbian-identified teen girls had recently had a male sex partner.
This type of disparity has become less surprising in the seven years that have followed. While lesbian and bisexual women’s sexuality has historically been the subject of scrutiny—and the reasons why a lesbian-identified woman may engage in sex acts with a man are varied—I’m not speaking here of skepticism or compulsory heterosexuality.
On the contrary, as acceptance of minority sexual orientations and gender identity have grown, these categories have become much more nebulous. Rather than being guided by physical experience, one’s sexuality and gender identity are now determined by something much harder to define: feelings. The YouTuber Contrapoints may have put it best in a now-deleted tweet: “Gen Z people are hard to figure out. They’re like ‘I’m an asexual slut that loves sex! You don’t have to be trans to be trans. Casual reminder that your heterosexuality doesn’t make your gayness any less valid!”
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