This community is housed on an instance run by two trans women, focused on the needs of the queer and gender diverse community.

We allowed 196 here because we were promised the community is queer and trans inclusive.

If you’re here it’s because you’re aggressively supportive of trans folk. Not middle of the ground, not “just asking questions”.

If your response to that is, “yes, but…” then this isn’t the instance for you, and by extension, this isn’t the community for you.

tl;dr - Unambiguous support and inclusion, or fuck off somewhere else.

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Edit - I changed the phrase "aggressive support to “unambiguous support”, as there was some confusion over the intent behind my previous phrasing.

    • CreamyWeenieEnglish
      72·
      1 year ago

      It was the only (as far as I know) general shitposting community on reddit that wasn’t casually racist/homophobic/transphobic, because of this a lot of LGBTQ+ people flocked to it for their memes.

    • AdaOPAEnglish
      34·
      1 year ago

      Honestly, I have no idea. We ended up with this community during the massive reddit migration because we are a queer focused instance, but I’m not sure of the history. I didn’t even know the community existed before that :)

      • LeylaaLoveeEnglish
        26·
        1 year ago

        I have no idea what the history of 196 being queer is, but it was an extremely queer subreddit. I think it has something to do with how many trans people also happen to be shitposters.

    • noisehoundEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      iirc, for awhile the first and only user flair available on r/196 was “trans rights”