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.

vinceman,

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

wildeaboutoskar,
@wildeaboutoskar@beehaw.org avatar

Not on your instance but it’s so good to see unequivocal inclusion and support for the trans community. There should be no room for bigotry of any kind.

Kes,
@Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Be friend of Blåhaj

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.

Milk_SDF_Possum,
@Milk_SDF_Possum@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Basically, if you’re not in their bubble of bullies they’ll bully you out of the instance and you don’t even need to be offensive for that.

Sekoia,

^ does not have context, doesn’t care, only wants to be mad

Congrats.

(If you do have context, that’s even worse lmao a good amount of the comments were pretty clear-cut)

RoyaltyInTraining,
@RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world avatar

I used to be on the original 196 two years ago, cause it really was 99% supportive. But it has simply devolved into fetishization over time.

glizzyguzzler,
@glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I’ll aggressively guzzle to that

Jarix, (edited )

I only saw this post because its on all

Maybe you dont want to be on all if this is your stance

Edit. The tone above is not hostile or pithy. I thought there was a dont show this community on all option. I have been informed that it isnt a toggle or opt out feature.

I apologize for any confusion my comment caused.

regular_human,
@regular_human@lemmy.world avatar

Why are you here?

UnculturedSwine,

all is literally every instance. You’re basically asking them to defederate or completely shut down their instance. If you can’t handle opinions like this, you can either petition your instance to defederate from this one or stop going to all.

Jarix,

Im not asking them to do anything at all. But i didnt know you couldnt ask not to show up in all. TIL

You have taken this beyond my intention. Im perfectly happy have trans content and issues introduced to me without looking for it. I dont want it to leave, it just sounded like THEY very much want people to only be there who are there on their terms and their terms only.

Sorry for the misunderstanding

Sharkwellington,

Same energy as “I don’t mind gay people I just wish they’d stop cramming their sexuality down my throat by holding hands in public.”

Jarix,

Well thats not what im saying, but i guess i missed my mark. Oh well.

I actually meant to convey that since the community seems to be under brigade of biggots that are very much not welcome, being on all seems to be hurting them. Im totally fine with their stance. I am openly and fully supportive. Pride Puerto Vallarta this year was awesome! Knowing why people are showing up who are unwelcome when there is such a huge influx of new people is something that might be good to know about. Which is why i started with im only saw the post because its on all, meaning i didnt go looking for it, it came to me.

Sorry for the confusion. Peace and love!

parlaptie,

No, this needs to be on all. Lemmy needs these aggressively supportive posts on all. Let the transphobes see overwhelming support for trans people. If they try to butt in, ban them.

Jarix,

Thank you, i wasnt suggesting it shouldnt be, it sounded like they didnt want the attention from being on all. Happy to see it there personally, though i have come to acknowledge that is not how my comment was received.

Singar,

Agreed. The answer isn’t for communities like this to isolate. It’s to be louder and drown out the bigots.

thisisbutaname,

Trans rights!

Coach,

You have my support one million percent. No one has a right to threaten or intimidate anybody just for existing; we won’t allow it.

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+ 💪💪💪

tanisnikana,

TRANS RIGHTS AND SHÖNK

loudWaterEnjoyer,
@loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I am here for shitposts, but this is real isn’t it?

wokeally,

trannies cant reproduce. humanity will perish with the faggot tranny agenda.

stappern,

you are not very smart are you?

wokeally,

you are very dumbfuck are you

stappern,

why? im not the one making absolutely nutjob claims that have no roots in reality :)

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

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