>>26938270>A stone butch is a lesbian or queer transgender person displaying female masculinity.[1] Stone butches usually do not like to be sexually touched genitally by their partners; however, they still provide their partners with sexual gratification, and often experience pleasure themselves in doing so.[2]The term was popularized by Leslie Feinberg in Stone Butch Blues, a 1993 novel describing the tribulations of being a stone butch person. In the end of the novel the protagonist ultimately settles the battle between her gender identity and sexual orientation by claiming the autonomy to identify however she wishes. Atticus Lee, providing a scholarly point of view in contrast to Feinberg’s novel, contradicted this sentiment in an article published by Stanford University, arguing that a stone butch is a pre-transition transman who participates in sexual acts only to pleasure their partner(s).[3] Jack Halberstam explores the stone butch identity in relation to transgender individuals, claiming that stone butchness is a compromise between being a lesbian and being a female-to-male transman.[4] Both Lee and Halberstam assert that stone butch can be regarded as a gender expression/gender identity alongside sexual orientation.
