I am a trans person and have no issue with trans people expressing who they are. The mods and admins of blahaj frequently use Gatekeeping as a false umbrella ban for any user they want to get rid of. This is also discussed in yesterday's thread by some users.
The owners of that 196 space have proven they are unable to let sleeping dogs lie and are hellbent on tearing down all other instances in a tribal war, and have decided to start lurking in other spaces and preemptively banning people like reddit mods.
This is not fair moderation practices, it's a petty tit for tat because abuse in their community was called out yesterday.
So what is the healthy conclusion that is reached by conflating trans human beings with people who want to be dogs and aliens? Do you understand in the real world somebody hears that and assumes everyone involved is crazy?
I remember this same drama happening on reddit, and after the terfs failed to invalidate enby people the terfs started to become dogs and attack helicopters to make a mockery of our non cis genders.
If my parents and grandparents can understand it or at least learn to accept it, so can your average person. We're being true to ourselves. We're living our lives the way we see fit. We are alive, at least for now, and I will stand my ground because I'm not a pussy-ass bitch who'd sell out my friends and family to make a bigot happy.
If you want to hurt yourself to make the cis people happy, then go knock yourself out, I suppose. However I'd appreciate it if you'd do it a nice, safe distance away from my family, friends and I; which means queer safe spaces don't seem like your speed.
Me? I'll be encouraging my friends and family to thrive and be the people they've always wanted to be.
I'm sorry you've never had anyone to give you that strength.
I wore my opossum tail during family Christmas. No one cared. I wore my collar. No one cared. I wore my furry stuff and carried my plushies around and despite being 30yrs old, you know, the age well beyond the point where you're supposed to have grown out of that stuff, no one cared. This was in Texas.
You know why I wore my opossum tail and collar? Because at the end of the day I feel like I have an opossum's soul and it honestly feels really weird not to wear them. I'm fucking skrunkly and constantly worried about everything. Did I make a big deal out of it though? No. I just lived my life the way I wanted to and no one had a problem with it. The reason I don't use neopronouns has nothing to do with their validity, I simply find them awkward. However I will not tell someone they are invalid or they shouldn't use them themselves.
Oh, and before you try to tell me I'm invalid, I'm AMAB. I'm trans in more than one way.
You know why I wore my opossum tail and collar? Because at the end of the day I feel like I have an opossum’s soul and it honestly feels really weird not to wear them.