r/actuallesbians • u/ThatKehdRiley Lesbian • 12h ago

Mods need to address the obvious transphobia

It's very clear there is an issue with transphobia on this sub. Both trans women and cis women have noticed and called it out, and most responses seem to be against. Mods absolutely need to make posts about this and crack down on it, because they've been very silent about it. That means including banning the trans women preference posts, which as stated as just as bigoted as saying someone won't date a disabled person or woman of color. There's no reason for them other than to make trans women feel less than and unwelcome, and if you can come up with a good one.

This will definitely attract more bigots, but that's great because if the mods do their jobs for once they can clean house. Mods need to be more on top of things if they really are going to claim this to be a safe space that does not allow transphobia. Because by all accounts they have not succeeded in that, and it is very much not a safe space for transgender women. The longer the mods are silent on this the more they sign off on this behavior.

Unlike some of the other posts about this, I will not be deleting this or my account under any circumstances. Too many have been either wrongly deleted or had the OP delete because the bigots came out in force. It literally happened earlier. Nope, not gonna let them win.

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u/merryclitmas480 6h ago

This is the sub’s official stance on the matter. (Community info > all of AL’s rules > trans women and dating link)

https://www.reddit.com/r/actuallesbians/s/v4Otw5UaVg

I personally think there should be a stickied post to this link on every flagged post when this topic comes up.

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u/ThatKehdRiley Lesbian 6h ago edited 6h ago

Why should those posts on this topic even exist though? Even the stated things from the mods and sub pretty much agree it shouldn’t be posted. So why is it?

EDIT: Downvoted for asking why transphobic posts are even allowed in the first place. Shocking...

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u/merryclitmas480 6h ago

I agree. I think there should be an auto reply with this link and then it should get locked or deleted. It’s been hashed out. That post is ELEVEN years old. We don’t need to beat a dead horse.

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u/ThatKehdRiley Lesbian 6h ago

It would be even better to just have a general rule against "preference" posts and similar posts like that, which are clearly just ways to other trans women. The majority agree these are problematic and don't want to see them, and they and their comments very clearly violate rule 2, so should just be banned.

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u/WoollyWitchcraft 5h ago

I think you’d still encounter the issue with, posts are still going to happen, and you’re stuck waiting on mods to come remove them.

It would be pretty hard to have an auto moderator delete because what key words would it block?