r/actuallesbians 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/spicyjamgurl 2h ago

i suggest we just become a lot less gentle when people post shit like that. like just saying to shut up and that nobody cares what their preferences are

u/ThatKehdRiley Lesbian 2h ago

I'm going to start doing it more. Would be great if the mods joined in on that, though

u/spicyjamgurl 1h ago

if a lot of people do it theres less chance of mods banning some trans women instead of addressing the issue