• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    “Trans friendly” is a weird way to say creepy chasers, the amount of overt sexualisation and objectification of trans people from non-trans people there is horrendous.

    You’re reading too hard into the reddit=stormfront thing. It’s just a common leftist refrain off-reddit because 90% of the site is pro-nato white supremacy and nationalism even if a handful of communities might be slightly less bad.

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      most of the posts there make my skin crawl. im basically a boomer at this point in the trans community (10+ years transitioned), younger trans people really need to learn what fake allies look like. just because theyre nice/sexualize you doesnt mean they actually support you. i know when the world hates your guts the bar is low, but you need to make that bar high for your own good.

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      I didn’t participate on 196 when I was on reddit. I wasn’t really aware of it. I have on lemmy though. The people here are super cool and trans friendly. I haven’t heard anything bad about 196 before. This thread is the first time people have complained about chasers on the reddit version.