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  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    The entire "how can you have that many different pronouns" discourse is by far the dumbest thing i've seen since the start of our federation, and it isn't just painfully cringe and ignorant and a clear sign that these people lack any and all experience with queer spaces unless you count r/196 and the trans category on pornhub, it is simply outright, open transphobia to deny peoples' gender identity. That's the very core of transphobic sentiment, to deny us our right to gendered self determination.

    It's sad to see these reactionaries have now also extended their attacks to other parts of the queer community, but it isn't surprising. These people always start with what they perceive to be the easy targets, but it's part and parcel of reactionary persecution campaigns to expand the outgropups they go after. This, besides the moral imperative of solidarity, is the strategic reasoning behind "an injury to one of us is an injury to all of us."

    We cannot tolerate such attacks on our queer comrades anywhere on lemmy. The perpetrators should be hunted down wherever we find them, and we should make it a cross-instance effort to make lemmy a safer space for queer people, and an extremely unsafe space for queerphobes of all kind. I propose that federated instances share blocklists of queerphobic users so that eventual bans can be extended to other instances preemptively. In a day and age were our community faces the worst attacks since the AIDS pandemic, we must look out for and protect each other.

    • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      One guy told me he "doubts any online community would be that gender diverse" which is just a new flavor of the early aughts attitude of "there are no girls on the internet". But yeah its also REALLY telling that they have no interacted with queer communities before. The majority of places I interact online I'm outnumbered as a cis man.

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        just shows he mostly hangs out in spaces that are openly permissive of transphobia, which unfortunately is most spaces. just hexbear's moderation policy is reason enough we constantly draw in trans people and eggs that will crack shortly.

        • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          Maybe we should just defederate from them instead of waiting for them to do it. Cite their transphobia as the reason, compile some chud posts from there into a list. edgeworth-shrug Would be more honest than whatever the fuck their reason for defederation is going to be.

        • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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          1 year ago

          That was the "Everyone but me is a bot" guy

          Thats like every lemmy liberal lol so I have no idea? I THINK it was the Bernie2028 guy but I've had so many weird experiences since federation I have no idea.

    • Ideology [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      These people always start with what they perceive to be the easy targets

      Just point me at them and I'll go hammarx-guns-blazing

      Nobody hurts my trans comrades