>>5788
the way i've heard it explained is that women often conform to a role–specifically, a gender role, the female one–in which they do not initiate relationships, but wait for the other person to initiate them, whereas men often conform to a role in which they initiate relationships. thus, a lesbian may wait for people interested in her to make advances, but most of the other lesbians are *also* waiting for others to make advances.
if you're talking about the meaning of lesbian, it refers to women who are attracted to women. the term lesbian is normally used to refer to women who are attracted to women. and yes, the group women is typically understood to include trans women.
in the image, the asker is asking whether there's a connection between that, the high number of trans women in the community, and the thing where there are lonely nerdy boys. the answerer is jokingly claiming that some of those lonely nerd "boys" are in fact lesbian trans women who have not yet realized it, and that they are suffering from lesbian sheep syndrome, which is the thing i've just explained. the next poster says that this is actually true. the third and final poster is saying that this is part of the way she realized she was trans. she heard that there were men who didn't initiate relationships, and were unhappy that there was a gender norm expecting them to do so, but couldn't escape it by not being men. she realized she was like this, but she had no reason to keep trying to be a man, and this is part of how she realized she was trans.
this has been: basic reading comprehension and the ability to google, with Anonymous on /ratanon/