I just got a message from a trans friend saying they got banned from /r/trans for trying to post the feinberg image I made some time ago. They messaged me, saying they were crying, because they got banned from 4 trans subreddits because of it and they were one of their only places of support and was so shocked that it was against the rules. They were already harassed off reddit once. I mentioned they could come here.
Its so fucking crazy that literally the 2-5% of trans people, liberals, were able to get ahold of the trans subreddits and hold our communities hostage, fragment them, and purge any trans people that want to fight and advocate for third world trans people who are literally having bombs dropped on their heads. I spend half my time on here going through ban logs to make sure as many trans people get to be here as possible and are dealt with leniently because of shit like this.
ruins everything
thank you for showing me this site, it seems more welcoming. i am a lurker by nature at this point but i really appreciate you noticing my removal
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did you know bahuchara is a hindu transgender god that rides a giant rooster? this leads to a lot of innuendo.
I bet it lays fun eggs
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did you know that transgender people have their own town in India that transgender people seeking help flock to? did you also know that the temple to bahuchara in this town is state funded, very beautiful, and houses those trans people? i recommend visiting, the people there are great! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becharaji
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Reddit LGBT communities are trash and should be avoided like the plague. I’m glad your trans friend has you to talk to in real life.
Just putting it out in the void, are there any good online spaces beyond Hexbear for trans folks? I’m so done with
. And beyond discord servers out there for transfem voice training, it’s frustrating.im not super aware of discord servers, never been my cup of tea. im more into front facing stuff.
susans place has a forum, and i know of some chinese trans sites on baidu tieba that are largely spammed by chasers, but outside of reddit, raddle.me and certain twitter, facebook pages, and tumblr hashtags… the pickings are slim. I want to try to drag people here so I look for removals on trans subreddits and try to bring people that are cool here
a lot of transgender people in india, if they are online, are on obscure facebook pages. this is because transgender people are generally poor and the only internet cheap phones in india can access is facebook because it is subsidized. i recommend checking there for indian stuff. but i do not like showing to everyone i am trans on facebook, this led me to look elsewhere.
it is unfortunately better to go to temples to bahuchara or similar deities for support in india.
Yeah similar in South Africa with LGBT stuff and certain social media sites being subsidised. It’s all obscure Facebook groups or Twitter.
I really hate how corporations have a giant monopoly on transgender spaces on the internet. Its incredibly frustrating and like you said, they make it easy to dox vulnerable trans people. We need to figure out how to jailbreak their phones and get hexbear on them lmao
it’s not hard to only follow a bunch of transgender communists on tumblr. now, the discourse can get bad sometimes but still pretty good if you can get past the site itself
None of us is free until all of us is free because the monsters are bigger than any of us but not bigger than all of us.
Uhhh what’s against the rules about it?
Isn’t Leslie responsible for a good portion of the language we use in the trans struggle today?
Reddit’s a toxic place full of judgemental closed minded people and the mods are no exception. Skinner box of brainwormed echochambers. It sows divison among the community same as a few other places I’ve known, lots of toxicity to people who don’t conform to the hive mind kind of logic that goes on. Never felt I could fit in such places thus drifted between places for a long time. Best finding somewhere more inclusive, like here c:
I hope to get more people here, I have been able to effectively organize real world mutual aid via contacts made here many times at this point
What do you expect from a website that installs new moderators when they don’t do Reddit’s bidding?
tbf i would expect hexbear to do that if the mods didnt uphold our regular purging of transphobes. its just reddit does that in reverse, they seem to have found some of the worst people to mod the trans subreddits. all the rules seem to be designed to fracture the trans community and prohibit discussion of topics relating to trans people in the global south simply because its ‘controversial’
which is just… bizarre. any other subreddit would say the same about trans existence
Interesting, so has Israeli forces taken over Reddit? Would make for an interesting article for an investigative journalist to look into.
The problem generally speaking is that liberals run a lot of reddit and there’s a certain type of liberal in mod teams that always wants the space to rigidly adhere to the liberal party line. That line at the moment is pro-zionism. So the outcome is this.
There is definitely some discussion in backrooms about whether it’s worthwhile for radicals to split from liberals when they do this. It’s an attitude of “the wrong kind of trans”. Support and protection in a community shouldn’t require you adhere to a certain political position on non-trans issues. Support and protection should be unconditional.
