Fuck's sake y'all. That list of dating sims I put up a week or two ago had 2 trans protagonists and no one said a goddamn thing, which kinda gets to the heart of the problem; people keep equating stuff that aren't equal and talking past each other.
If stuff with trans characters can fly completely under the radar like that, it's because those games didn't have sexual content so it was never present in a sexual context. Everyone's fine with that because, trans or not, they fit the bill for a female character and slot into lesbian/sapphic/WLW/yuri/whatever you wanna call it romantic dynamics without issue. What do genitals matter if they never come up?
Anyways, 2 main points we work with from that-
With those in mind: I find having the thread standards be against futa is fine since the fetishistic aspects tend to override everything else. But swinging after 
anything with trans characters regardless of framing is heavy-handed. Keep them off the list proper if you want, but jumping someone for recommendations they were upfront about the content of, were outside the main list, and that don't have men/fits the sapphic/WLW/yuri/whatever vibe check is completely unnecessary and more of a problem than the recommendations themselves. There should be enough wiggle room in the thread replies to ask about and discuss similar topics, especially since actual sapphic spaces are overwhelmingly trans positive so most actual queer women that come here are going to have different expectations.
As usual I want to close on a more positive note, so I'll ask explicitly: anyone got any good edge cases? Games that are about relationships (sexual or not, but definitely romantic) between women (trans or not, but definitely not men)? Something that hits the WLW vibe but not this thread's exact rules? 
Something to spice up another slow period cause idle hands get in slap fights apparently.