Those are not inherently the same,
Yes, they are, like I said, you don't have to mean it to be transphobic for it to be transphobic. People who are ignorant and get called out who don't want to be transphobes will admit ignorance, apologise, and improve their behaviour. Anything else makes a person a transphobe, no matter how uncomfortable that makes you.
I say feed the Wally (username checks out lmao) to the bears.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Unrelated
It actually is very much related, ableism often goes hand in hand with other forms of bigotry (and exists in all spaces in its own right), and we need to stand up to it just as much as the others.
A relevant example is that there is a pretty significant overlap between trans people and autistic people, and so any of us who are both get gaslit and patronised because we couldn't possibly know our gender identity since we're autistic and therefore must be completely lacking in any knowledge or understanding even of ourselves. It's disgusting.
Don't be hard on yourself, we each carry our own baggage and trauma and it can be hard to find confidence and a voice through all that shit. But learning to set boundaries (which is basically what this is) is such a powerful tool for self defence, and a way to try and reduce opportunity to be constantly retraumatised, we could all benefit from doing it more!
Telling transphobes (and other bigots) to fuck off, making it clear to them that they are not welcome, and that their bigotry isn't a legitimate "opinion" they get to express without consequence.
Yes, an anonymous internet forum, which is open to and used by the public.
I'm really not sure what point you're trying to make - just let transphobes be? Because fuck that.
I think I remember from the 196 mess that Ada mentioned being able to see reports that haven't been acted on, but I'm not sure about those that were acted on, even if that action is ignoring. Either way, I'm glad there are meta spaces to bring it up either way!
Wahey, good riddance! Thanks for the update.
Thanks for tagging in the relevant people, and for confirming that if the mod in question deleted the reports, they probably wouldn't reach the admin level.
I really hope the other admins act as decisively as db0.
Fantastic. We can only hope that the lemm.ee team take a similar stance against this user, but I won't hold my breath.
Fantastic to hear, thank you!
This is transphobia since it is factually incorrect and stems from wilful ignorance, and I'm shutting it, and your tone policing, down. There, how's that?