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I would like to add on to the fact that sapphic spaces suffer from intense internalized misogyny, butchphobia, misandry, biphobia, transmisogyny, and racism 
https://twitter.com/BlizzardAvis/status/1358168486875455490
https://twitter.com/BlizzardAvis/status/1358168486875455490
First off: the internalized misogyny. Many (and by many I mean all) sapphic spaces I have been in during my life have a very...stilted worldview on women's sexuality. Open sexuality with other women is often viewed as masculine or otherwise non-feminine
This plays into the hatred of butches in sapphic spaces, where masculinity is often looked at as aggressive, hypersexual, and non romantically appealing.
Butches are either hypersexualized or treated as diet men and it's very gross to me.
This leads into a common root issue in sapphic spaces: the misandry. Oh god. Let's strap in, shall we?
We've already discussed how misandry can manifest as butchphobia, but why does it exist in the first place?
Sapphic and lesbian spaces have existed for a very long time, often existing in parallel with achillean communities. The lesbian separatism movement, however, ended this period of mutual support, because it made the lesbian identity about it's lack of association with men.
It is not possible for women to oppress cis straight men. HOWEVER, misandry is odd because it manifests in ways that impact already oppressed groups. See the homophobia shown towards gay men, the view of trans women as 'men in dresses', and the hatred of trans men.
(this adds on to another point of mine: criticizing white gay men for using AAVE is absolutely fine, but actively harassing them for being flamboyant or too loud is just homophobia. even if you are lgbt yourself.)
Because of this centering of sapphic identities around the absence of manliness, anyone with an adjacency towards masculinity is actively or passively excluded.
This is why bi people are so vehemently loathed in sapphic spaces--we are adjacent to men through our attraction to them.
Bi people are not gold star lesbians, and for that we are treated as lesser than our gold star comrades, despite our similar experiences.
As far as transmisogyny, I don't feel comfortable really speaking on it myself (although I am trans, I am TME), so I recommend reading! Here is a good start: https://m.sacurrent.com/ArtSlut/archives/2016/06/29/challenging-transphobia-within-queer-spaces
On racism, I am again underqualified to speak from my personal experience (I'm white, quite obviously) so I again recommend reading and listening to poc sapphics (ESPECIALLY Black and Indigenous ones).
For the life of me I cannot find a good thread or article by sapphics of color on this particular topic (lots of research papers and news articles, none from a person impacted from racism in sapphic spaces themselves it seems) sorry!
Sapphic love is so often portrayed as two white cis fem women giving each other fluttering eyes across the room in polite society, that anyone who differs from that norm is viewed as less appealing in our spaces.
My interpretation of the reason racism is particularly prominent in sapphic spaces is that poc contradict the ideal of white womanhood, but that could be entirely incorrect and I'm interested as to what y'all think
In conclusion: lesbian separatism and racism sucks and has impacted every facet of the sapphic community so we must collectively and actively work against them
Also the "uwu women are perfect and should be loved romantically but not sexually" mentality feels very misogynistic (not that asexual sapphics don't exist--they do and they are very cool; this is just a general sentiment that feels quite off)
