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The transphobia stops now (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This community is housed on an instance run by two trans women, focused on the needs of the queer and gender diverse community.

We allowed 196 here because we were promised the community is queer and trans inclusive.

If you're here it's because you're aggressively supportive of trans folk. Not middle of the ground, not "just asking questions".

If your response to that is, "yes, but..." then this isn't the instance for you, and by extension, this isn't the community for you.

tl;dr - Unambiguous support and inclusion, or fuck off somewhere else.

Edit - I changed the phrase "aggressive support to "unambiguous support", as there was some confusion over the intent behind my previous phrasing.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah. Whenever this is pointed out I see people saying "oh so you DON'T think it should be cool not to be a bigot? Nice political strategy there", and completely missing the point. It's already not cool to be a bigot, and communities like this one are already reinforcing that with the trans-positive memes. On the whole, so is media made by trans people, and many other things.

So by denying this when they say that, they're implying that "being cool" means even more than that. The implication is that trans people need to be conciliatory and open up their spaces to people that want them dead, and that when they "critique" us we should just sit there and take it but when we critique them it's "thought policing".

It's a completely ridiculous ask, not to mention cowardly that they'll wrap it behind implication rather than just say it to our faces.