[Toughy]

What seems to get forgotten, (or considered out-dated or somehow passe), is that butch is also woman. Not just female-identified or female-bodied, but woman. Woman, as an identity, as a butch identity does not need justification or qualifiers. In fact to do so reeks of internalized misogyny. That's what I call it when women are devalued, under-represented, co-opted, and under-estimated.

My position exactly. Thanks for articulating it so well!