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?

  • jsomae@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • cowboycrustation [he/him]OPMEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • jsomae@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        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.