lesbian-trans turf wars transition cohort transgender-related ideological conflict butch FTM FTM butch/FTM border wars An informal ideological conflict involving the so-called proper placement of a "border", so to speak, between butch lesbians and transgender men (FTMs). No clear result other than the existence of a "masculine continuum" was achieved, and to this day it is not uncommon for self-proclaimed lesbians to date transgender men, conceptualizing them as extremely butch lesbians. Such thinking is often considered transphobic. butch-FTM border wars lesbian-trans turf wars