It's kind of depressing that lgbt spaces here are empty because there's been no attempts to reach out/ reconcile with the existing trans community in chapo or any of their concerns, but there's a big ol post on main weaponizing lgbt identity against china which actually recently took a great stride in providing legal protection for trans comrades seeking medical transition. And with a prominent post in this very community being a cis person questioning the need of affirming pronouns for comrades across the gender spectrum. It's more than ok to pose these questions but it raises the issue of what the priority is in affirmatively making sure there is a space here in chapo for our queer comrades to have a home, vs being a home for cis comrades to affirm their own perceived tolerance.
Did you guys delete maries post?
Marries comment that was deleted:
I’m Marie. I’m trans, and I’ve been posting on or lurking the subreddit for two years. I was active in the community when it got quarantined, when no efforts were made to organize onto an official r/CTH discord server. I still remember how I honestly found the community to be one of the few that protected trans comrades and not to be blatantly transphobic, at least in my experience. Of course there were always the people who pointed out how bad some members of the community can be, but I always disregarded those because I understood the culture from where we were coming from. Sure, there were a lot of cis guys who probably didn’t understand where I was coming from, but that didn’t matter because it was understood that they meant well. During my time on the sub I never felt like I was misunderstood for that. When the discord was released I was happy to be able to move there to have a piece of that community, to understand that things would continue and that the community would endure made me happy to see that the sub would not fundamentally change and we would retain that culture. I was genuinely happy about that and I was active from day one on this discord.
Fast forward to today and I’ve been permabanned from the discord for 3+ weeks. I was, unfortunately, misgendered by someone on the discord (and had been multiple times by that point) and so I expressed my feelings that not enough was being done to protect trans comrades. The response I got, was being told by mods that my criticism was “flamebaiting” because I “whipped the megathread into a toxic fervor”. I have been completely stonewalled every single time I try to open up a dialogue on this and to try to address the problem. When the Lemmy was launched we were repeatedly assured that everyone would start with a blank slate and that everyone would have a chance to make amends. This has not happened. I was repeatably told to appeal my ban, to talk to mods and to place my trust in them to makes things right. My only course of action was to organize against this injustice, to gather our (small) community of comrades who have been similarly wronged. In doing so and attempting to voice our concerns, we have all been branded “wreckers” and “counter-revolutionary”. Our posts get deleted. Our accounts get banned for a variety of reasons and continue to be banned. We all, in our ways, have been ostracized from this community that we used to call our own. All we ever wanted was reform. We want the mod team to not be shit. We want them to be held accountable for their actions. Will this ever happen? No.
all cishets must be consumed