I'm not voting, but I just wanna say, in a reasonable society, opposing someone's rights would get you beat up
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As much as it would be nice to have around for the few posts that are relevent to me I'm gonna hae to go with
just because of the excuse. Not only does the court case change nothing, but even if it did they should be enforcing their current anti-transphobia rules until they've reached a decision on how to implement it. They aren't, and are holding up an irrelevent court case as an excuse.

Fuck a Nazi TERF instance. And that user in question with the “adult human female” dog whistle bullshit can face the fucking wall.
All white english to be banned, all goes according to plan 


No tolerance. Feddit.uk can oust their mods and admins themselves or move to different servers.
Big 
We should 100% detach from any instance that harbors transphobes.

ukkk is yuk

I'm trans; I say fuck 'em

Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Shitty ass rule that just means transphobia and other bigotry is acceptable as long as it's a ”subtle” dogwhistle.

The admin's response is just very strange. Why does British law matter here? No one expects or wants forum rules to have a formal legal basis. It's something you make and enforce based on what kind of community you want to have, and if they're fine with transphobia because it's legal to be a transphobe, they clearly don't want the kind of community we do and we should defederate.
Why does British law matter here?
It doesn't, they're just insufferable reddit-tier losers
I say try
but
the first sign of it not working.
first to make their admins seethe
24 hours later because it's the right thing to do for our users

:ukkk:
(i'm trans fyi)
Not voting either way here. But I'm further of the opinion that we are still attempting to compromise by having two mutually exclusive goals in one instance - Propagandising libs and having a safe space for our comrades. Achieving both on the same site doesn't really seem possible.
I don’t think hexbear should have outreach as goal (and I’m not sure it even does). Hexbears policies are not perfect but it’s the only space on the internet I know of where I’m not constantly confronted with bigotry and where most concerns of marginalised groups are actually taken seriously. There are plenty of spaces (even other lemmy instances) where you can educate libs if you want to.
I do all my propagandizing on Lemmy.ml, Hexbear is useful for those we can manage to bring over here but is more valuable as a safe space for our comrades than for agitprop.
No one in the world should ever have to speak to a British person

There are only two other instances worth being federated with, and this site should always prioritize bring a safe space for marginalized people.

If I'm reading the feddit.uk comments correctly, UK passed some transphobic law defining "woman" and that somehow affects how they moderate their UK based internet forum.
From burgerland this is absurdly inconceivable, but the UK is know for not having any sort of free speech laws.
Whether its for feddit.uk or the UK as a whole 
I just like seeing the British flag burn. Tiocfaidh ár lá.


transfemme here.
if they defederate from us for being pro-trans, that looks worse for them than us preemptively defederating. Now we know to agitate around that specific issue and it's a good time to confront britishers in their home threads. I'm fine either way but think we could do something funny which makes them show their ass+hair more.


The situation for my trans siblings in the UK is absolutely dire rn. When the courts and the governments are out to strip them off their rights, they need solidarity, not backstabbing. Reacting to these developments by an internal discussion if transphobia should now be allowed on the instance means the admins have already chosen barbarism.

'ate transphobes
'ate the UK
'ate blood sauage
love my comrades
Simple as
I don't think I've ever seen one of them on our local comms so I don't really care to weigh in one way or another. 
I will say having someone in a position of authority with the name "Emperor" is incredibly sauceless. If you're in control of something online your name should either be like "Dave" or "Weepo Gleepo"
I dont think we should be taking into account whatever blahaj does before making our own deciaions, but i also dont think we need to discuss defederating from an instance chock full of loosely moderated reactionaries
but trans women are the ones getting the vast majority of abuse and if the ladies wanna tussle i'm down to tussle


i refuse to be outflanked by blahaj lmao. have we acquired the nuclear warheads yet? britannia delenda est
We defeded from blahaj.zone for the same reason. It would be pretty hypocritical to stay federated with them, especially since the transphobia
is even worse. There’s just no excuse for not banning someone who calls trans women "it".
I'm called enough slurs as it is already 

defed gang keeps winning uphold socialism in one lenmy thought 

No more half measures, walter


if they aren't good enough for shark site they're not good enough for bear site
When are you going to leave the park with the sharks and come into the lair with the bears?
They don't ban the transphobes.

If, at some point, they stop treating transphobia like a moral dilemma and have a track record of moderating it right away, maybe we can reconsider