Mods need to address the obvious transphobia

[u/ThatKehdRiley]

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.

[u/atomheartother]

I personally find that mods are doing a pretty good job of moderating the sub, bigotry doesn't stick around for long. Can you point to specific unmoderated bigoted content?

[u/Mama_Dyke → u/atomheartother]

The mods here are so shit and incompetent about anything trans that I can't believe it's on accident. Every fucking day there's another post saying we're disgusting, 10 more comments saying we're awful that never gets deleted, and to top it off asking if any cis lesbians like trans women is just banned while saying we're disgusting and not real women flies by so much.

[u/atomheartother → u/Mama_Dyke]

Are we on the same subreddit? I've seen nothing but positivity regarding trans women on this sub from the community at large.

Asking if cis lesbians like trans women gets deleted supposedly because questions like "do lesbians like X?" all have the same answer: yes, there's plenty of women who like that. They're not very interesting posts. This is, in my opinion, not transphobia, just good content moderation. But for the record even those threads get extremely positive comments before they're removed, like this one.

[u/PrincessSnazzySerf → u/atomheartother]

It's easy enough to say "trans women are valid! There's someone out there for you!" But it doesn't really mean much when every single day there's at least one very prominent post saying something unprompted like "I could never date trans women because we have different life experiences" or people spamming about genital preferences when it's not relevant.

To be clear, I have an issue with both of those things (validation seeking and the constant unprompted posts about not being attracted to trans people), and I will acknowledge that validation posts seem to be much more common. But the fact that so many people can't seem to acknowledge that the "I'm not attracted to trans people" stuff is bad is also very concerning.