Dyke

Dyke or dike is a slur commonly used to refer to lesbians, especially butch lesbians. It targets and has been reclaimed by all manners of AFAB, lesbian, feminine-aligned, and intersex queer people, such as transmasculines, m-spec lesbians and sapphics, nonbinary people, and transgender & sapphic non-lesbians.

Alternate Names

 * Bulldyke (African American English, to be used only by Black dykes)
 * Morphodyke (only to be reclaimed by intersex individuals)

Etymology
The origin of the term dyke is unknown, however there are theories on where it originated:



Controversy
Reclaiming the term has been the subject of many various controversies since its original reclamation. In modern times, most pushback comes from Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) due to the radical inclusion of the label. There is also a large amount of discourse around who can reclaim the slur, especially from m-spec lesbian and lesboy exclusionists.

Subsets

 * Dykegender
 * Boydyke
 * Fagdyke
 * Dykegenderfag
 * Tryke