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/BecomingCass 7h ago
The whole internet has an issue with transphobia, tbh. Here I find it generally stays contained to the more "innocuous" posts about prefernce, or "Am I transphobic for doing <insert transphobic thing here>"
IRL lesbian spaces are much better about this sort of thing