AcidSmiley

@AcidSmiley@hexbear.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you allow transphobic mods?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Women’s sports are the main entryway for transphobic policymaking besides gender affirming care for minors. This is where they weasel in, this is where they normalize misgendering us and making bioessentialist claims that are the opposite of all the empirical evidence, this is how it starts. Not fighting back against sports bans is how we lost the American public on that front, it’s how we lost the American public on even the meekest compromise measures like puberty blockers, now they’re at striking down workplace discrimination protections and changing our documents. You do not get to pick and choose what’s a losing issue here, ofc they’ll start with the stuff that’s easiest to paint as contentious. Amerikans gave in there, it was the start of how they lost that fight. This is all or nothing. You stand with all of the community, even a tiny minority of trans athletes, or you do not stand with any of us. Does that mean we’ll win on all fronts? No, but we still have to resist on all fronts or we’re fucked. Do not give a single inch just because you personally don’t care or think you’re personally not affected, this is part of a bigger struggle and you’re not equipped to fight it if you don’t fix that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you allow transphobic mods?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascist doesn’t read the studies he links, nothing new here. They’re always like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you allow transphobic mods?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you have an opinion based on fascist pseudoscience and defend it with pathetic tone policing when people rightfully call out your compliance in trans genocide. Eat my shit and hair, nazi pig.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Andrew Tate prosecution files reveal graphic claims of coercion ahead of trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s an overwiew: motherjones.com/…/anti-trans-transgender-health-c…

  Also i know a ton of older trans people who were already out 20 years ago. There’s more of us not repressing our transness today, sure, and just 5 years ago i would’ve agreed with you that things have improved massively, but the last few yeasrs have been outright terrifying, there’s a very real backlash against trans rights and it is bankrolled with a ton of money from reactionary activists in the US, but also Brazil, the UK, the EU, Russia and the gulf states. Hate crimes are increasing,t his years’ pride season was full of attacks and vilification as well. Queerphobia is taking over as the right’s new favorite form of bigottry. Things are getting rough out there, i’ve regularly seen requests about migrating to Europe from American and British trans people during the last year, until the majority recently changed to posts like “im stuck in Florida and can’t leave, what happens to my body when i can’t take HRT (hormone replacement therapy) anymore?” Talks about where to move to when things turn south are fairly common among us nowadays, as are plans to arm and organize for community self defense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear federation megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  it certainly seems like the mods there let anything slide as long as it is isn’t outright incitement to violence

  Our mods tolerate a lot of things that would get you banned on reddit, such as calling for the death of nazis as long as it’s not what we call “fedposting” (actionable threats of violence that would also work as an FBI honeypot). On the other hand, our moderation team is probably the most hardline one on the entire internet when it comes to punishing transphobia and other queerphobic sentiments, and we do not take kindly to other forms of bigottry on there, either. For example, using the r-slur or other ableist language will reliably get your post deleted. If you have a habit of calling people you disagree with autistic or schizophrenic, you can prepare for getting banned from our instance. We look out for our neurodivergent comrades. Then there’s the entire culture against hornyposting that we have. Hexbear is very different from the rest of the internet when it comes to sexualizing and objectifying people. We’re not a sex-negative instance, but we’re hentai free and don’t want things to get creepy and uncomfortable in our place. We have a fairly elaborate culture of what goes into a content warning, too. We’re most definitely not an “anything goes” free speech absolutist instance. We’re a staunchly leftist, intersectional, antifascist community and we actively fight to keep it that way so that all marginalized people can feel safe around us.