The transphobia stops now (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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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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[-] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Human rights are human rights, no matter who you are

[-] Jimbo@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you, based mod

[-] Arystique@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Heck yeah! Fuck Transphobia!

[-] Lightsong@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just wondering what does 196 means anyway? Clueless lemmy user here.

Ps I'm ally of LGBTQ2S+.

[-] Mozingo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Back on Reddit some dude and his roomates made a subreddit called r/195 (their dorm number). It only had one rule, when you visit, you have to post a meme. Eventually the public found the subreddit and started posting their own memes. It got huge and out of hand and some awful stuff started getting posted so they finally deleted the subreddit. That disappointed a bunch of people so a sequel was made, r/196. This community is a recreation of that second subreddit.

[-] There1snospoon7491@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This should be in the sidebar so the lore isn’t lost.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Hello, Based Department, we've got another Based Community here.

Trans rights are human rights!

[-] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this, honestly it was worrying how many upvotes some transphobic replies were getting.

[-] pjb@lemmy.spacestation14.com 1 points 1 year ago

What the fuck, transphobia on 196?

Trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

[-] mbryson@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Based.

Thank you for creating a safe space. I'm an ally to the LGBTQ+ community and am happy there's a space not for "everyone", but for those willing to accept trans folk and silence those against them (while having funny posts on it as well).

[-] Nyla_Smokeyface@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's comforting to know that this community is intolerant of transphobia

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Trans people are regular, real people. Like my college friend. Or my wife's HS friend. Or that one kind soul I worked with once.

I'm so god damn sick of all the hatred and lies and bullshit and murder and sadistic laws against trans people.

I loudly applaud any space that actively supports trans people and gives them a place free from hatred and assholes.

[-] funky_rodent@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Will spend the next days reporting transphobes if necessary <3 best wishes from Germany

[-] UhBell@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

[-] CYCLR@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Personally, I don't think about other people's sexuality all that much, so I guess that makes me a non-aggressive supporter.

It's weird to impose this type of stuff, but I respect that this is your little space on the internet, so I'm leaving, as you asked. Thank you for the smiles and laughs.

[-] 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's greatest stumbling block in his strike toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice.'

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Not to equivocate trans and black liberation because they are very different, but do you think “aggressive” or “non aggressive” supporter of race rights better slots into the whites who demonstrated their unwillingness to go along with racism or the ones who were like “I don’t care about your race, I’m not a racist, but how dare you ask me to support you in any meaningful or visible way?”

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[-] Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I'll be honest I think alienating people feeling in the middle is a bad idea, making an echo chainber is ehat those other websites are for, and people on the middle ground are the ones whose beliefs matter the most as they they are the only ones that will change things.

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There shouldnt be any middle ground on the statement "trans rights are human rights". If you think there's room for compromise on the oppression of marginalized groups then you're either a lost cause or willfully ignorant of the world around you. People that are in a safe space, specifically dedicated to them and people like them, have no obligation to educate or entertain disingenuous "discourse" about whether or not they should be allowed to exist.

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[-] QualisArtifexPereo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Joining most of the people here in saying, "Huh, what community?" I'm not against trans people, and I despise bigots, but I'm not a part of your community either.

To be honest I don't care to be part of any federated community that defines itself by what it won't tolerate, grow up and use the block feature.

[-] Doug@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

grow up and use the block feature.

I'm really sick of this talking point. If history hasn't demonstrated to you that ignoring a problem doesn't resolve the problem then you take ought to go back and read some more.

If you can't stand to be bothered by others trying to carve out consideration for your fellow humans then I'm glad this may be our only interaction.