The transphobia stops now

This community is housed on an instance run by two trans women, focused on the needs of the queer and gender diverse community.

We allowed 196 here because we were promised the community is queer and trans inclusive.

If you’re here it’s because you’re aggressively supportive of trans folk. Not middle of the ground, not “just asking questions”.

If your response to that is, “yes, but…” then this isn’t the instance for you, and by extension, this isn’t the community for you.

tl;dr - Unambiguous support and inclusion, or fuck off somewhere else.

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Edit - I changed the phrase "aggressive support to “unambiguous support”, as there was some confusion over the intent behind my previous phrasing.

CurlyWurlies4All,
@CurlyWurlies4All@prxs.site avatar

Fuck yeah 🏳️‍⚧️

favrion,

I stand in full support of the queer community as an ally.

survive,

Yes, but….I don’t even know what 196 is. It shows up on my feed and is sometimes funny. I’m just clueless, not a bigot.

ssfckdt,
@ssfckdt@mastodon.cloud avatar

It's a random memeposting group that happened to evolve into a trans
oriented memeposting group.

It started with /r/195, which closed or something, so sequels were created e.g. /r/196, /r/197... kind of like Oceans Twelve ig

SourCreamAndGarlic,
@SourCreamAndGarlic@lemmy.ca avatar

Mostly. r/197 wasn’t really a sequel to r/195. It was mostly made up of people banned from r/196.

Source: I’m a former r/196 mod.

sapient_cogbag,
@sapient_cogbag@sh.itjust.works avatar

196 is a random content community with the simple rule of “post before you leave”, so its filled with memes ^.^

It’s also a very trans friendly place. But there was a thread recently with a bunch of “just asking questions”, and “trans people are just oversensitive”, and “I’m not a bigot, but most trans woman have a chip on their shoulder so I am no longer friends with them” kinda stuff, on a post a (trans) mod made complaining about people reporting a pretty questionable comment.

Even if people disagreed over the original comment, the thread about it ended up being transphobic as fuck.

So presumably the admins of lemmy.blahaj.zone (a trans-run instance, who host this, main, c/196 community, on the promise it would be very trans supportive) noticed the lack of moderation of that transphobic thread and are doing something about it ^.^

survive,

Appreciate the context! When I first started seeing the posts it seemed like something I liked but I was slightly afraid from not understanding the backstory. So glad to hear that it’s a wholesome place. I feel safe subscribing now.

Mic_Check_One_Two,

Long story short, some college roommates in room 195 started /r/195 on Reddit. The only rule was that you had to post a meme before leaving. Then the general public found it, and it grew as it started to hit /All.

But with that growth came the bigots, the racists, the nazis, etc… So eventually the /r/195 sub was quarantined. But people still liked the idea, so someone started 196 as a sort of sequel to the original. A little more moderation, and they let the bigots and racists stay on 195 so 196 could become the opposite of that. It was more heavily moderated with the hateful shit getting removed, so it quickly grew to be known as a trans-friendly sub.

And now this 196 is essentially a clone of that same idea. This announcement isn’t anything surprising once you know how 195 devolved, because the lack of moderation on 195 basically meant that the bigots were able to brigade anything that wasn’t also bigoted.

NotThatKindofDoctor,

🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈 100% support from me

DominicO,

Critical Support

xpinchx,

🏳️‍🌈fuck your hate🏳️‍🌈

Abrslam,

I support!

expected_crayon,

Thank god. Reddit and Twitter were ruined by the transphobic and Nazis. Glad that isn’t tolerated here.

XEAL,

What caused this post?

Aesthesiaphilia,

A kerfuffle: https://lemmy.world/post/1893561

TexMexBazooka,

That was underwhelming

ada,
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

That linked to post was a response to an existing ongoing discussion that brought transphobes out of the woodwork. That post also had transphobic replies, and there were multiple discussions going on at once with active transphobes.

It was the ongoing transphobia that occurred around the initial discussion that prompted my post, not any specific single post.

TexMexBazooka,

I remember seeing the original post, it was in response to being asked if they’d date a trans person wasn’t it?

Aesthesiaphilia,

The original post was an image with the text "Hey you, straight dude: are you attracted to women or to femininity?"

I posted a response that said I like boobs & pussy, and then someone (who turned out to be ace, and just was curious) asked if I would date a trans man.

ada, (edited )
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yeah, I know. I saw the context.

Your post was removed because I wanted that whole line of conversation dropped, not specifically because of your single post.

Also, it’s worth noting that your post was not the trigger for this thread.

Aesthesiaphilia,

That's totally fair, the whole conversation was getting out of hand

AWistfulNihilist,

Thank you for clarifying, as some just happening to stumble upon this and the context!

ada,
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

It was, yes.

But you need to be aware, cis people talking about the reasons they are valid in not wanting to fuck trans people is something we see all day, every day. It’s normalised for people to just volunteer how unfuckable they find us.

And whilst that discussion might have some valid spaces in which it can be talked about, a meme community on an instance run by two trans women is not that space

vinceman,

Genuinely thank you. This community just existing as it does has already helped me a fucking weird amount.

Lightsong,

Just wondering what does 196 means anyway? Clueless lemmy user here.

Ps I’m ally of LGBTQ2S+.

SamXavia,
@SamXavia@kbin.social avatar

@Lightsong

IronCorgi,

Sorry if I'm being dense but how does that relate to transphobia? Do the messages they post tend to be transphobic or something?

BedInspector,

All I know is that 196 communities have The Rule which is that you must post something before you leave.

Mozingo,
@Mozingo@lemmy.world avatar

Back on Reddit some dude and his roomates made a subreddit called r/195 (their dorm number). It only had one rule, when you visit, you have to post a meme. Eventually the public found the subreddit and started posting their own memes. It got huge and out of hand and some awful stuff started getting posted so they finally deleted the subreddit. That disappointed a bunch of people so a sequel was made, r/196. This community is a recreation of that second subreddit.

There1snospoon7491,

This should be in the sidebar so the lore isn’t lost.

PugJesus,
@PugJesus@kbin.social avatar

196 was a shitposting subreddit back on, uh, Reddit, which had one rule - you had to post before you left.

It became known as a very trans-friendly shitposting subreddit and honestly probably one of the better shitposting subreddits in general.

Now it's migrated at least partially to the Fediverse.

RealAccountNameHere,
@RealAccountNameHere@beehaw.org avatar

Awesome. Thank you!

dreikelvin,

You have my utmost support even though I am not even on your instance. Just saw it in the federated feed :p Stay strong LGBTQ+ 💪💪💪

Gormadt,
@Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Hello, Based Department, we’ve got another Based Community here.

Trans rights are human rights!

BitingChaos,
@BitingChaos@lemmy.world avatar

o shit. what did i miss?

Aesthesiaphilia,

I said a thing: https://lemmy.world/post/1893561

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