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[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago

Thanks foryour thorough answer. I and I'm guessing manyothers experience lemmy as a very leftist space. Therefore I was a bit surprised when the other person claimed that transphobia was"rampant".

the main kind of transphobia we see on lemmy kind of takes on a different skew than in most places bcs of the left wing nature of lemmy, so we don't really see any overt conservative types anymore bcs they all got bullied off but what we do see is that a lot of the time now, transphobia (at least of the gender critical type) comes from users who are life long committed dyed in the wool older democrat supporters or whatever who dont really agree with trans stuff or whatever but just accept it because they think everyone deserves to live their life and they oppose Republicans attacking us. So they'll make some faux pas about transness, be corrected by a trans user but then double down, get into an argument and then at some point just start being openly transphobic. So for instance a while ago i saw someone who kept saying he was really trans positive and woke and he didnt oppose trans rights at all, briefly make a shitty joke saying that on lemmy it was always the "leftist pronoun brigades" having shitty takes in the news threads, get (tbh kind of agressively) told what he said was transphobic, which he replied to by doubling down, and then a few replies on and he was saying that he accepted trans people but nonbinary people were all

[CW for transphobia:]'mentally ill basement dwellers appropriating the trans struggle to cancel people for not accepting their made up pronouns'

but yeah, transphobia is a lot less noticeable on lemmy than reddit imo, but it is still there and some of the more right wing instances aren't particularly good about banning their transphobic users if they just use dogwhistles instead of being outright anti trans

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago

big oof

ok. I guess I've been hanging out in a bit too radically based communities to experience that. That's some seriously shitty stuff I really didn't expect on lemmy.

Thanks for explaining that stuff. I'm seriously sorry for all the trans folks who have to endure that shit. I'm gonna be a bit more vigilant in the future.

this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2024
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