The instance seems to be mostly right wing trolls. I know defederating is unpopular but I don’t think much is to be lost in this case and it can save the mods some headaches.
Edit: the response on exploding-heads.com to my reporting of transphobia. Courtesy of the “second in command”
Literally everything in this comment is YOUR EXPERIENCE, at least your perception of it. If you were to go around saying “here is what I experienced” that would be absolutely FINE! But that’s not what you are doing, you are saying “speak with a gender therapist who will likely urge you to transition” is objective fact. Don’t even share the stories of those you’ve spoken with as lived experience because those are second hand stories and therefore unreliable. I’m not saying that the people you’ve spoken with can’t be trusted, but the mere nature of the fact that the are secondhand means they are coming from an unreliable narrator.
You are literally incorrect about that law in California - I live in California, and that is one thousand percent not a law, and I know the law to which you are referring that got distorted over social media and you didn’t even get that correct and twisted even further to fit your narrative.
No one in those comments said anything about lying to therapist’s to get on hormones. Meds were never mentioned except in people’s anecdotes. The only things commenters were encouraging OP to do were to think things through. And no, misinformation does not change from person to person. There are things that are factual and things that are not. You went from stating items as facts in the being to later revealing them as your anecdotal experience, which may simply be your perceived experience.
What exactly about my comments do you find harmful? I explained, multiple times, that your anecdotal experience does not equate to the entirety of the profession or the community.