Several of the safe spaces and groups were renamed as FrauenLesben-Räume, “WomenLesbian-Spaces”, to include and make additional discrimination of specifically lesbians – even by women – more visible.
[3] Subsequently, within the queer community, efforts were made to find a term that includes everyone who suffers under patriarchal structures or faces discrimination based on their gender identity.
Additionally, it aims to criticize the assumption in heteronormative society that sex and romantic relationships with cisgender men are an integral part of femininity.
In the case of trans men, the argument often revolves around female socialization or general assumptions about the body, particularly the assumed absence of a penis.
Sometimes, the argument is based on possible prior experiences of sexism, which partly contributes to making current sexist behavior by trans men invisible.