How did a transphobic comic get positive votes on lemmy?
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2025
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Unfortunately some kinds of transphobia gets upvoted now and then because cis people don't always understand what we're going through and what is hurtful or oppressive. Some people just have this stance that others should take things even if they have no understanding of what it's like to actually be the victim of systemic/societal discrimination.
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Thank you for keeping this community safe, I know this is never an easy decision and the job of moderating is often thankless 🫂 I really appreciate it
Ada trying not to slay challenge (Impossible)
Thank you, Ada
Thanks again for all the work you do for this community. It does mean the world.
I appreciate this move. The nice thing about the Fediverse is that admins can take a step like this to protect the integrity of this instance, and users can still engage with that stuff if they create an account on another instance. I'll continue to argue with bigots elsewhere but I'm grateful for how the admins curate Blahaj Lemmy.
It's a shame how the UK seems to be heading backwards on human rights, and shameful how the UK government has decided to throw in with the bigots and embolden them.
hard mode: uk stop being transphobic for two seconds.
Terf island strikes again!
I'm coming from a small brazillian instance and we're also getting attacks on the brazillian trans community, on our case is the medical association, dictating that doctors couldn't treat trans kids.
I asked my admin to support you and to de federate them until they change their policy, hope other instances join too.
thanks ada uwu
Based for defederating from feddit
Cringe for another decision that effects all blahaj users without their consent without posting any proof.
Registration on this instance is clear enough about what this instance is about, and this move is perfectly in line with it. The post isn't even for you.
Notice the 4chan based/cringe trope and they're from .world 🎣
Scrolling through this thread, I don't see any blahajis with less than full approval. If there are, they are more than welcome to show their disapproval by moving to a different instance.
I appreciate this sort of moderation. Imagine if somehow it was voted down: then people who don't want to be federated with feddit.uk would have no options. "Posting proof" may have some benefit, but few of us want to tread through more transphobia, so that sounds like a net negative to me.
This is precisely how things should work. Way to go, Ada!
trans women are not women
Wasn't this a recent court ruling in the UK? Which isn't great.
I don't know all of the terminology, but the entire argument over it just seems so stupid, how does letting trans people exist bother you in any way?
Yes, but the best thing is that it's not, like they are claiming, law. It is merely an interpretation. It doesn't stop us from doing anything we were doing previously though ultimately a lot of transphobes and business will inteprate it that way, sadly. Plus there is some whisperings of it meaning certain legal things but it isn't that yet. The Equality Act needs to be updated anyway and if it was this would make the supreme court's ruling null and void.
Even if it does mean new laws most of us will probably break them anyway as unjust laws are not worth paying any attention to.
For a positive perspective on it the equality act doesn't stop you including more groups than it specifies. So society can advance without needing the government to keep up, as long as enough of society agrees that can allow putting pressure on businesses when they don't keep up.
Good point! Thank you!
This is a good move. I've reported a lot of tankie-like remarks on feddit that never get their comments removed and it's concerning. Better to cut off any suspected tankie incubator than suffer the consequences
I'd rather my comm ban people that complain about 'tankies'. It's a useless term which can mean 100 things to different people, only serving really to divide the left.
Common Ada W
As a denizen of terf island myself, all I can say is; fucking good! Our enemies hide behind statements like "just asking questions", but there's no room for debate when it comes to people's rights and look where that thinking has gotten us.
The time for debate is over. I want my rights back.
Based Blåhaj admin is based.
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