• Catoblepas
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    7 days ago

    People mad about it inherently do not understand the point of federation if they want all instances to basically be .world, except with different mods.

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        6 days ago

        Either that or they’re literally too daft to understand why trans people would rather see a hundred people with wEiRd PrOnOuNs who may or may not be trolling than see a single person appointing themselves the pronoun police.

        Like, it’s not showing me anything I didn’t already know, it’s just ugly to see. Not to get on the soapbox too much, but I think medicalization* of transness and the portrayal of the noble suffering trans person as an archetype kind of inevitably leads to this Very Serious interpretation of gender identity that is just as oppressive as Evangelical takes on gender. Sorry if anyone got the wrong impression, but “MTF + FTM + nonbinary are All The Genders” wasn’t actually what anyone involved in trans liberation was ever fighting for. If this makes (general) you mad, go make that your problem instead of mine.

        And I say that as someone that needed surgery and HRT! It will probably actually kill me if HRT gets banned in the US, I’m not saying this as someone with no skin in it. They’re not taking anything from me by existing, and if seeing them makes you go “holy shit we’ve gotta shut this whole trans thing down” then you were always my enemy.

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        That is, treating transness as a medical condition and nothing more, not that any medical treatment for trans people is bad.

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 days ago

      They want the Fediverse to be a free speech safe haven allowing any and all forms of bigotry and harassment without banning people for it. A lot of early Fediverse promotion promoted it as a free speech safe haven so it’s not surprising we got a lot of these dipshits as a result.

      Thankfully they’re slowly learning they aren’t welcome and many have already left to other platforms like Nostr. Hopefully all of them will leave soon.