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This post is "FYI only" for blahaj lemmy members. It is not a debate, and is not intended for non blahaj lemmy users to weigh in and offer opinions.

I recently received reports of a feddit.uk user espousing transphobia. Specifically, this was a feddit.uk user refusing to use the word cis, repeating the "adult human female" dog whistle, and claiming that trans women are not women. I approached a member of the feddit.uk admin team and raised my concerns and sought clarification of their stance on posts like this, where the transphobia is mostly dogwhistles, and "civil disagreement" on the validity of trans folk.

I was told by the feddit.uk admin that their preferred response is this kind of transphobia is to "sort it out through discussion and voting". However, the comments in question are currently more upvoted than downvoted, and little "sorting out" has occurred. The posts remain in place.

At this point, the admin stopped responding to my messages despite being active elsewhere on lemmy. When it became clear they were ignoring my messages and had no intention of removing the posts in question, I made the decision to defederate the instance.

I know some folk agree with the feddit.uk admins approach of pushback through discussion and voting, but this instance is not designed to be that kind of space. Blahaj lemmy is meant to be a place where we can avoid the rampant transphobia universally visible on nearly every other social media platform, and where we can exist without needing to debate our right to do so.

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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 ๐Ÿซ‚ I really appreciate it

Thank you, Ada

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.

[โ€“] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 3 days ago

Blahaj user and former Brit here ... well done Ada for consistency and transparency regarding this.

The whole "let it play out" attitude really says it all, it shows cowardice and a lack of leadership ... kind of like the current prime minister.

[โ€“] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 87 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

I'm not a blรฅhaj user, but I really hope the feddit.uk mindset on this doesn't spread to other instances.

Why do divisive people have to care so much about letting people do what they want if it doesn't affect them? What someone wants to do with their body does NOT affect you, but your open derogatory statements about them DOES affect them!

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[โ€“] neatchee@lemmy.world 58 points 3 days ago

Another non-blahaj here to say FUCK YEAH, Ada.

Deplatforming works. Demanding civility from people under attack by disingenuous, insincere "intellectuals" is so much more than just tone policing; it's direct enablement of disenfranchisement and allowing the spread of harm.

It's easy to be bad. It's hard to be good. When bad people are allowed to express their evil ideologies, it is much easier for people to pick up the evil than for the righteous to defend the good.

We cannot be tolerant of intolerance.

So, again, FUCK YEAH, Ada. You rock for protecting your users AND the rest of the world by contributing to the deplatforming of bigots.

[โ€“] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 3 days ago

Based Blรฅhaj admin is based.

You kick ass Ada. Thanks for all you do.

[โ€“] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 3 days ago

Common Ada W

[โ€“] 0x0f@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 days ago

thanks ada uwu

Unfortunate that you had to do that, but it sounds to me like you make the right call. Keep being great ๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿค๐Ÿฉต

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[โ€“] jan_Melisa055@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Of course it had to be feddit.uk

[โ€“] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 75 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They don't call it TERF Island for nothing.

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[โ€“] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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?

[โ€“] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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.

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[โ€“] 2hundredpancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Thanks for doing what you do.

It's ridiculous we are still having to deal with this in 2025. Just yesterday I had to see someone using the tslur as a "joke" under a .world post. Mods removed it. It's not hard to be decent, although some people decide to make it look like an impossible task. As far as I'm concerned, hate speech is not free speech...

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