Y’all, we have a problem.
These are some of the results of a survey done on our community concerning gender identity:
1.08% Binary Trans men (4).
1.08% Transmasculine people (4).
1.35% Cis women (5).
That’s right, there are more CIS WOMEN on a TRANS community than binary trans men or transmasculine people alone.
We have a problem.
This isn’t just a Blahaj problem. Another queer instance did a similar survey and found only 3% of their users were trans and use he/him pronouns.
Not having enough transmasc voices is going to be detrimental to our community. There are plenty of transmasc people on the internet. The problem is with Lemmy.
So what are we gonna do about it?
The main reason why I mentioned cis women in particular is because Lemmy is known to have such a low percentage of them, so the fact that there’s more on here than trans men or transmasculine enbies alone on a trans community is baffling to me.
Lemmy does seem to have an AFAB problem and my current theroy is that AMABs are usually pushed into the CS and related fields at a young age much more than AFABS. Lemmy is currently made up of a large percentage of people in the CS field right now. That could change in the future if the word is spread about it.
that’s my theory too. I am afab but I have a brother who got me interested in CS at a young age.
Perhaps reddit also has an AFAB problem. Or rather, the effect you’re thinking of that makes cis women rare here applies equally to other afabs.
I pretty much stumbled into Lemmy. I’m not a programmer but have always been tech savvy and grew up with the Internet. I used reddit a lot because I liked being in a majority male space. Even when I was an egg, it would give me a rush of euphoria when people automatically assumed I was a dude on Reddit. I was one of the people who jumped ship from Reddit when all the API stuff went down.
Reddit doesn’t seem like it’s got as bad of an AFAB problem as it used to. When I left it wasn’t uncommon for people to mention if they were a woman and wasn’t as taboo from the looks of it. The trans spaces were pretty big and active. I’m sure the demographics are still slightly skewed but they’re certainly not as bad as they were six years ago when I’d first joined.
I am happy to hear you are enjoying lemmy.
But I think we might be mincing words here with “problem.”
problem: there are too few AFAB people in the space problem: the space is unwelcoming to AFAB people
Reddit may not be (excessively) misogynistic (or transmisandric), but fewer AFAB are on reddit than we would have liked. Lemmy I think is this but even more extreme.