Yeah, yeah I know: Stop the presses.
I already knew that through osmosis, but actually going there and seeing them just gleefully eating J.K. Rowling out under a post about her bullshit really cemented it for me.
They genuinely believe we'd have world communism by now if it wasn't for those meddling trans.
If the transphobia has been a latent pattern, that means it will stay part of the background noise unless called out. Calling it out isn't to give them attention so much as it is to give the issue attention and start a real struggle session over it and what we represent as a community. I don't want to be part of another r/stupidpol so it's a lot easier to set the tone now than it will be when we have 10 times the population and many of them come from those same spaces.
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When the posts about the issue started popping up it seemed like the former was more of the complaint than the latter. Most if not all of us live in deeply reactionary countries where the trans community is a persecuted minority within a persecuted minority. CPUSA had a big white chauvinism problem in the 1920s/30s because they were carving out a new interracial dynamic in a country where all cultural programming was white supremacist. Deprogramming that is a conscious effort and this is the one online community I'm a part of which isn't LGBT-oriented but consciously tries to be trans-positive, different social expectations that I had to adjust to even having stuck to socialist reddit for a good four years before I joined r/chapo.
The intentional trolling is definitely a problem too but its scope and impact is up in the air. They're the bigger spectacle at least.