I have gotten suspended from Medium. Attached is their email on why I got suspended. They didn't site any specific comment. I am always very respectful but direct on my comments. I have been on Medium since 2017 and only started receiving warnings in the last year. I believe what's happening is that the vocal trans community is reporting…
I have gotten suspended from Medium. Attached is their email on why I got suspended. They didn't site any specific comment. I am always very respectful but direct on my comments. I have been on Medium since 2017 and only started receiving warnings in the last year. I believe what's happening is that the vocal trans community is reporting on comments that they do not agree with as "harassment or hateful". Medium as a result is becoming a vocal left echo chamber on trans issues and racial issues. Not surprising given how little content from independent or conservative authors there exists on Medium. I only read Medium to get a perspective on where the vocal left is on issues.
At this point I have deleted my Medium account. They state that everything is deleted. Interesting twist on that. They are in violation of their own statements. If I click on a link to one of my old articles, they state "This account is under investigation or was found in violation of the Medium rules. That should not happen given I have no account on Medium.
They are doing what other social media companies are doing. They are creating an echo chamber that ideally gets more paid subscribers. What's needed is a concept like Medium that is owned by authors. Authors can not block comments. Any reports of "harassment or hate" would be public and judged by readers and/or authors as whether its inappropriate. Might be controversial but Medium needs an "Elon Musk" like rework to push back on the vocal left. Would not be hard to create.
The relevant parts of the Medium email
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Hello,
We are writing to notify you that your Medium.com account is in violation of our rules on harassment and hateful content, and your profile and posts will no longer be publicly available on Medium.
Transgender and nonbinary individuals currently face unprecedented levels of social persecution and marginalization. Therefore, we do not allow content that may undermine their dignity and rights. This may include misgendering, dead-naming, claims that transgender individuals are not their gender identity (“trans women are men”), or erroneous claims based on disinformation or pseudoscience.
"Transgender and nonbinary individuals currently face unprecedented levels of social persecution and marginalization. Therefore, we do not allow content that may undermine their dignity and rights. This may include misgendering, dead-naming, claims that transgender individuals are not their gender identity (“trans women are men”), or erroneous claims based on disinformation or pseudoscience."
Holy crap! Thanks for posting this Rogue. I'm going to urgently re-think posting on Medium in light of this.
I mean, first of all, where is this energy when it comes to literally any other group of people on Medium. Even during the height of the racial reckoning, I received tons of racist abuse in my comments with not a peep from "Trust & Safety."
Secondly, what exactly does "undermining the dignity" of trans people even mean"? Can I tell the truth about biological sex? Can I point out that simple, uncontroversial fact that trans women are male? Or that a wound in your crotch where your penis used to be is not, in fact, a vagina? Can I question the legitimacy of confusing and medicalising children? Is the bar simply at any truth that hurts some trans person's feelings? As you say, we'll never know because they don't tell you.
And lastly, what do they hope to achieve by creating this climate of silence? All it does is penalise people who want to talk honestly about the conflicts between women's rights and trans women's inclusion. People who want to protect children from a lifetime of medicalisation. It's never been about removing hateful content directed at trans people. I don't think I've ever seen *anything* hateful about trans people on Medium. It's about demonising people who dare to care about trans people AND women.
"Or that a wound in your crotch where your penis used to be is not, in fact, a vagina? "
Oh, that is very good.
But a phalloplasty is considerably more grotesque, a lump of arm or thigh skin shaped as a cylinder and grafted between the legs, its appearance enough to make strong men vomit.
The only thing that frustrates me is the same thing that inspired JK Rowling to engage on Twitter. I have been listening to the podcast "The Witch Trials of JK Rowling". Its presents the concepts of how the vocal left emerge on Tumbler and the vocal right emerged on 4chan. Its discusses these platforms as the original echo chambers that started the culture war.
I fully support trans people's right to exist. I also fully understand why people like JK Rowling and Riley Gaines have issues with a trans-woman being allowed into traditional women's only spaces and activities. The vocal trans community has shut down the conservation on this. I don't know if upper levels in Medium are suspending people like me because they believe my comments are harassment or hate or they are just trying to stay out of a backlash by the vocal trans community. Regardless, from my perspective, Medium has now become what Tumbler was. Its an echo chamber for the vocal left.
What is most frustrating is that Medium suspends people like me with no details on what specific comment or article violated their rules. That makes me believe they are scared to publish the details.
There is a reason why many in the LGB community no longer want the T to be associated with LGB. That reason is because the vocal T community refuses to allow a rationale discussion on the complexity of the issues surrounding being trans.
I listened to that as well. Very interesting. And I'm pretty much with you on everything else. I am an old school liberal who is right-coded now because of my positions. I am anti-dehumanization of all people but I'm not about to let other people do my thinking for me.
It's a bald-faced lie that "Transgender and nonbinary individuals currently face unprecedented levels of social persecution and marginalization." I looked into the murders ("trans genocide") for an article recently. In both Canada & the US, it's <50 a year murdered. Which is <50 too many, but to put things in perspective, women are killed by the THOUSANDS in both countries every year. And I wouldn't even call *that* genocide, since genocide is an organized group persecution and the majority of bio women & transpeople murdered every year is pretty similar - male partners. So, domestic homicides rather than random transpanicking strangers homicide.
And since they demand that you LIE and claim trans women are something they're not, it's all for the best, really. Maybe you should create the blogging platform you suggest...maybe Elon Musk will even contribute, LOL!
It's about gaining and retaining power over others. A good part of their power, and what puts them at the top of the oppression olympics, is fostering the belief that their very survival is continually threatened and are dying in huge numbers. This might be sincere delusion, or it might be cynical manipulation, or some mixture, depending on the person and context.
I vary by the day (and sometimes more often) in how much optimism / pessimism I'm feeling about this.
I see a major pushback developing. The long march through the institutions has met some stumbling blocks, and no longer can count on each next conquest just quietly rolling over.
But the institutions and the educational, cultural and economic elites are already deeply pervaded by the ideology, and that's not going to change easily.
What I see is:
* affective polarization getting ever stronger
* an increasing culture-war divide between the elites and the masses
* increasing geographic assortment creating ever more extreme legislation
* a different set of dysfunctions growing on the right
So I see a growing pushback, but I'm not sure it's going to result in a more humane rational society.
"Therefore, we do not allow content that may undermine their dignity and rights. This may include misgendering, dead-naming,
>>>>claims that transgender individuals are not their gender identity (“trans women are men”)<<<<"
And there you have it, plainly and openly stated: there is no place for scientific fact on Medium, lest some deranged and delusional "trans" activist chooses to take offense.
I snuck back on there just to read ("Khym Mahn" if anyone cares) and I am getting daily emails groveling for the monthly fee that would give me unlimited reading.
I am going to use your quote above to tell them why I am not giving them a dime.
I just engineered y "suspension" with my first and presumably last post:
==
Why I am Not Becoming a Member of Medium
There is no place for scientific truth on Medium
A friend was recently banned from Medium and in the email he received he was told:
"We are writing to notify you that your Medium.com account is in violation of our rules on harassment and hateful content, and your profile and posts will no longer be publicly available on Medium.
Transgender and nonbinary individuals currently face unprecedented levels of social persecution and marginalization. Therefore, we do not allow content that may undermine their dignity and rights. This may include misgendering, dead-naming, claims that transgender individuals are not their gender identity (“trans women are men”), or erroneous claims based on disinformation or pseudoscience."
Medium will never receive a dime from me if this rubbish is enforced.
That “trans women are men” is an uncontroversial biological fact. Surgically modifying a man’s body to create an appearance of the feminine does not create a woman. A “trans woman” is a man impersonating a woman, and a wound where his penis used to be is not a vagina.
I have read on SubStack that Medium has banned thousands of paying customers and good writers for even infinitesimal denials of “trans” ideology; I will never give money to your publication even if years ago it was a great place to write.
It’s the “trans” ideology that is the pseudoscience.
“Trans” and “nonbinary” people are less persecuted than actual women and they do harm to gay people, to real women, and, worst, to children, promoting experimental medical treatments including enthusiastic neutering of children in what is grotesquely called “enabling their true selves.”
This post will be hastily removed and my account “suspended,” which is fine, but I will never pay for this. And I hope the surgeons, therapists, pill-mills and McGender clinics’ staff are all soon in jail.
Maybe your Trust and Safety staff belong with them.
==
Apologies to Steve for not crediting the wound part but it would just get him banned.
Yea I remain on Medium only to take the pulse of the “succesor ideology” to use Wesley Yang’s apt phrase. Can you imagine if the moderators on Medium and their ilk ran the country? They already mostly run the culture. Goodbye freedom. Trump and MAGA or this crap--pick your poison.
Glenn Loury, the conservative black intellectual here, had an episode removed on YouTube recently because he had a guest on who speculated that transfolk may actually be suffering from a mental illness, something similar to schizophrenia. Whether you agree or not, it's an *opinion*, and was clearly that, and yet the trans-nazis got his ep taken down with a 'first strike'.
He did a podcast with his Creative Director who reached out to Substack to get their take on censorship and to make sure Glenn didn't run afoul of them again.
Should have added before I sent...Substack is pretty committed to non-censorship. NO platform is censorship-free but we want the platforms that only engaged in pre-woke censorship, which is only those miscreants who get REALLY out of hand.
Just checked him out, briefly, esp the exchange where he called you asinine and without evidence & you said you'd never make the mistake of reading/responding to him again. Checking out his profile (briefly) it looks like he actually does produce his own work and engage actively on SS. He sure does look like a mega-putz but I don't know, is he truly a troll? There are intellectual wankers everywhere who dispute everything, demand ridiculous amounts of evidence, make crazy claims etc. but I don't count them as trolls, customarily, if they're actually contributing with original material. Of course, he could be both, I don't know. I didn't look too closely. But mega-putz, for sure. Yeah, SS needs blocks. I don't consider blocking others censorship. Sometimes you do it for your mental health, and some do it because they're intellectual p**sies. I blocked India Willoughby, some big-name TA from England the other day on Twitter, because she got snarky with me over something or other but didn't allow me to respond. So I retweeted the exchange and tagged her saying I was blocking this person because she was a coward for not letting people respond. She's not a troll IMO but I don't engage with cowards.
He’s a troll. Read more than one of his posts. He has this nutty position that male and female only apply after puberty and that prepubescent children and postmenopausal women have no sex. The host of that SS has a doctorate in biology; Steersman has a two year vocational degree and zero biology.
But. He writes the same words, phrases, sentences and whole paragraphs over and over. He is not only repetitive, but condescends to everyone since everyone thinks his hobbyhorse is absurd. He works in little bits of Latin and endless links to create an intellectual impression which is then demolishes with his ridiculous biology. If you actually read his links you'll see that he has misrepresented and rewritten them, and they do not support his thesis.
And he's been doing this for six years.
The repetition is trolling; the condescension is trolling; posting the same two links to some journal literally hundreds of times is trolling. Calling his bizarre idea “standard biological definitions” in every single post is trolling.
I have gotten suspended from Medium. Attached is their email on why I got suspended. They didn't site any specific comment. I am always very respectful but direct on my comments. I have been on Medium since 2017 and only started receiving warnings in the last year. I believe what's happening is that the vocal trans community is reporting on comments that they do not agree with as "harassment or hateful". Medium as a result is becoming a vocal left echo chamber on trans issues and racial issues. Not surprising given how little content from independent or conservative authors there exists on Medium. I only read Medium to get a perspective on where the vocal left is on issues.
At this point I have deleted my Medium account. They state that everything is deleted. Interesting twist on that. They are in violation of their own statements. If I click on a link to one of my old articles, they state "This account is under investigation or was found in violation of the Medium rules. That should not happen given I have no account on Medium.
They are doing what other social media companies are doing. They are creating an echo chamber that ideally gets more paid subscribers. What's needed is a concept like Medium that is owned by authors. Authors can not block comments. Any reports of "harassment or hate" would be public and judged by readers and/or authors as whether its inappropriate. Might be controversial but Medium needs an "Elon Musk" like rework to push back on the vocal left. Would not be hard to create.
The relevant parts of the Medium email
---------------------------------------
Hello,
We are writing to notify you that your Medium.com account is in violation of our rules on harassment and hateful content, and your profile and posts will no longer be publicly available on Medium.
Transgender and nonbinary individuals currently face unprecedented levels of social persecution and marginalization. Therefore, we do not allow content that may undermine their dignity and rights. This may include misgendering, dead-naming, claims that transgender individuals are not their gender identity (“trans women are men”), or erroneous claims based on disinformation or pseudoscience.
Thanks,
Trust & Safety
"Transgender and nonbinary individuals currently face unprecedented levels of social persecution and marginalization. Therefore, we do not allow content that may undermine their dignity and rights. This may include misgendering, dead-naming, claims that transgender individuals are not their gender identity (“trans women are men”), or erroneous claims based on disinformation or pseudoscience."
Holy crap! Thanks for posting this Rogue. I'm going to urgently re-think posting on Medium in light of this.
I mean, first of all, where is this energy when it comes to literally any other group of people on Medium. Even during the height of the racial reckoning, I received tons of racist abuse in my comments with not a peep from "Trust & Safety."
Secondly, what exactly does "undermining the dignity" of trans people even mean"? Can I tell the truth about biological sex? Can I point out that simple, uncontroversial fact that trans women are male? Or that a wound in your crotch where your penis used to be is not, in fact, a vagina? Can I question the legitimacy of confusing and medicalising children? Is the bar simply at any truth that hurts some trans person's feelings? As you say, we'll never know because they don't tell you.
And lastly, what do they hope to achieve by creating this climate of silence? All it does is penalise people who want to talk honestly about the conflicts between women's rights and trans women's inclusion. People who want to protect children from a lifetime of medicalisation. It's never been about removing hateful content directed at trans people. I don't think I've ever seen *anything* hateful about trans people on Medium. It's about demonising people who dare to care about trans people AND women.
God, I'm furious about this!
"Or that a wound in your crotch where your penis used to be is not, in fact, a vagina? "
Oh, that is very good.
But a phalloplasty is considerably more grotesque, a lump of arm or thigh skin shaped as a cylinder and grafted between the legs, its appearance enough to make strong men vomit.
The only thing that frustrates me is the same thing that inspired JK Rowling to engage on Twitter. I have been listening to the podcast "The Witch Trials of JK Rowling". Its presents the concepts of how the vocal left emerge on Tumbler and the vocal right emerged on 4chan. Its discusses these platforms as the original echo chambers that started the culture war.
I fully support trans people's right to exist. I also fully understand why people like JK Rowling and Riley Gaines have issues with a trans-woman being allowed into traditional women's only spaces and activities. The vocal trans community has shut down the conservation on this. I don't know if upper levels in Medium are suspending people like me because they believe my comments are harassment or hate or they are just trying to stay out of a backlash by the vocal trans community. Regardless, from my perspective, Medium has now become what Tumbler was. Its an echo chamber for the vocal left.
What is most frustrating is that Medium suspends people like me with no details on what specific comment or article violated their rules. That makes me believe they are scared to publish the details.
There is a reason why many in the LGB community no longer want the T to be associated with LGB. That reason is because the vocal T community refuses to allow a rationale discussion on the complexity of the issues surrounding being trans.
I listened to that as well. Very interesting. And I'm pretty much with you on everything else. I am an old school liberal who is right-coded now because of my positions. I am anti-dehumanization of all people but I'm not about to let other people do my thinking for me.
It only takes one report of "transphobia" to get your account banned.
It's a bald-faced lie that "Transgender and nonbinary individuals currently face unprecedented levels of social persecution and marginalization." I looked into the murders ("trans genocide") for an article recently. In both Canada & the US, it's <50 a year murdered. Which is <50 too many, but to put things in perspective, women are killed by the THOUSANDS in both countries every year. And I wouldn't even call *that* genocide, since genocide is an organized group persecution and the majority of bio women & transpeople murdered every year is pretty similar - male partners. So, domestic homicides rather than random transpanicking strangers homicide.
And since they demand that you LIE and claim trans women are something they're not, it's all for the best, really. Maybe you should create the blogging platform you suggest...maybe Elon Musk will even contribute, LOL!
There have always been people who get some perverse validation out of feeling persecuted. The "trans" creeps are merely the latest.
I remember gay men whose lives were devoted to being as offensive as they could manage and who never stopped whining about "homophobia."
It's a sickness.
Victimhood allows you to emotionally blackmail everyone around you. For someone who feels powerless, it can be heady stuff.
It's not just about validation today, Chris.
It's about gaining and retaining power over others. A good part of their power, and what puts them at the top of the oppression olympics, is fostering the belief that their very survival is continually threatened and are dying in huge numbers. This might be sincere delusion, or it might be cynical manipulation, or some mixture, depending on the person and context.
Standard hyperbole serving self interest.
Persecution validation. Genocide. The “trans teen suicide plague.”
This is their moral foundation and thus is their weakness, because it isn’t true.
This is what we need to dismantle.
The worm is turning. People are getting sick of them. LGB no T is on the front lines.
Walsh’s film has had a hundred million views. Walsh is a putz but his film is very powerful.
I vary by the day (and sometimes more often) in how much optimism / pessimism I'm feeling about this.
I see a major pushback developing. The long march through the institutions has met some stumbling blocks, and no longer can count on each next conquest just quietly rolling over.
But the institutions and the educational, cultural and economic elites are already deeply pervaded by the ideology, and that's not going to change easily.
What I see is:
* affective polarization getting ever stronger
* an increasing culture-war divide between the elites and the masses
* increasing geographic assortment creating ever more extreme legislation
* a different set of dysfunctions growing on the right
So I see a growing pushback, but I'm not sure it's going to result in a more humane rational society.
I SERIOUSLY don’t like finding myself agreeing with the right. But it’s the red states that are banning gender affirmation.
I have to face the fact that my faction is promoting this “trans” shit. I send a lot of emails.
But we have the moral high ground. Castrating little boys, mutilating little girls, these are not cool.
"Therefore, we do not allow content that may undermine their dignity and rights. This may include misgendering, dead-naming,
>>>>claims that transgender individuals are not their gender identity (“trans women are men”)<<<<"
And there you have it, plainly and openly stated: there is no place for scientific fact on Medium, lest some deranged and delusional "trans" activist chooses to take offense.
I snuck back on there just to read ("Khym Mahn" if anyone cares) and I am getting daily emails groveling for the monthly fee that would give me unlimited reading.
I am going to use your quote above to tell them why I am not giving them a dime.
Trust and Safety? How Orwellian.
I just engineered y "suspension" with my first and presumably last post:
==
Why I am Not Becoming a Member of Medium
There is no place for scientific truth on Medium
A friend was recently banned from Medium and in the email he received he was told:
"We are writing to notify you that your Medium.com account is in violation of our rules on harassment and hateful content, and your profile and posts will no longer be publicly available on Medium.
Transgender and nonbinary individuals currently face unprecedented levels of social persecution and marginalization. Therefore, we do not allow content that may undermine their dignity and rights. This may include misgendering, dead-naming, claims that transgender individuals are not their gender identity (“trans women are men”), or erroneous claims based on disinformation or pseudoscience."
Medium will never receive a dime from me if this rubbish is enforced.
That “trans women are men” is an uncontroversial biological fact. Surgically modifying a man’s body to create an appearance of the feminine does not create a woman. A “trans woman” is a man impersonating a woman, and a wound where his penis used to be is not a vagina.
I have read on SubStack that Medium has banned thousands of paying customers and good writers for even infinitesimal denials of “trans” ideology; I will never give money to your publication even if years ago it was a great place to write.
It’s the “trans” ideology that is the pseudoscience.
“Trans” and “nonbinary” people are less persecuted than actual women and they do harm to gay people, to real women, and, worst, to children, promoting experimental medical treatments including enthusiastic neutering of children in what is grotesquely called “enabling their true selves.”
This post will be hastily removed and my account “suspended,” which is fine, but I will never pay for this. And I hope the surgeons, therapists, pill-mills and McGender clinics’ staff are all soon in jail.
Maybe your Trust and Safety staff belong with them.
==
Apologies to Steve for not crediting the wound part but it would just get him banned.
Yea I remain on Medium only to take the pulse of the “succesor ideology” to use Wesley Yang’s apt phrase. Can you imagine if the moderators on Medium and their ilk ran the country? They already mostly run the culture. Goodbye freedom. Trump and MAGA or this crap--pick your poison.
Substack please don’t go there!!!!
Glenn Loury, the conservative black intellectual here, had an episode removed on YouTube recently because he had a guest on who speculated that transfolk may actually be suffering from a mental illness, something similar to schizophrenia. Whether you agree or not, it's an *opinion*, and was clearly that, and yet the trans-nazis got his ep taken down with a 'first strike'.
He did a podcast with his Creative Director who reached out to Substack to get their take on censorship and to make sure Glenn didn't run afoul of them again.
I Feel, Therefore I Am - The interview with Mark Goldblatt that got Loury his ‘first strike’ with YouTube - https://glennloury.substack.com/p/i-feel-therefore-i-am-repost
I Was Censored By YouTube - Glenn Loury, speaking with is creative director on what happened, and how Substack is committed to free speech - https://glennloury.substack.com/p/i-was-censored-by-youtube?lli=1&utm_source=%2Fsearch%2FYouTube&utm_medium=reader2
I'm with you. Nazi Germany or the North Korea? MAGA or woke? I'll take the bullet, please.
Should have added before I sent...Substack is pretty committed to non-censorship. NO platform is censorship-free but we want the platforms that only engaged in pre-woke censorship, which is only those miscreants who get REALLY out of hand.
It does need a block feature. It has trolls.
Read Reality’s Last Stand. Look for one “Steersman.” Classic stalker troll.
Just checked him out, briefly, esp the exchange where he called you asinine and without evidence & you said you'd never make the mistake of reading/responding to him again. Checking out his profile (briefly) it looks like he actually does produce his own work and engage actively on SS. He sure does look like a mega-putz but I don't know, is he truly a troll? There are intellectual wankers everywhere who dispute everything, demand ridiculous amounts of evidence, make crazy claims etc. but I don't count them as trolls, customarily, if they're actually contributing with original material. Of course, he could be both, I don't know. I didn't look too closely. But mega-putz, for sure. Yeah, SS needs blocks. I don't consider blocking others censorship. Sometimes you do it for your mental health, and some do it because they're intellectual p**sies. I blocked India Willoughby, some big-name TA from England the other day on Twitter, because she got snarky with me over something or other but didn't allow me to respond. So I retweeted the exchange and tagged her saying I was blocking this person because she was a coward for not letting people respond. She's not a troll IMO but I don't engage with cowards.
He’s a troll. Read more than one of his posts. He has this nutty position that male and female only apply after puberty and that prepubescent children and postmenopausal women have no sex. The host of that SS has a doctorate in biology; Steersman has a two year vocational degree and zero biology.
But. He writes the same words, phrases, sentences and whole paragraphs over and over. He is not only repetitive, but condescends to everyone since everyone thinks his hobbyhorse is absurd. He works in little bits of Latin and endless links to create an intellectual impression which is then demolishes with his ridiculous biology. If you actually read his links you'll see that he has misrepresented and rewritten them, and they do not support his thesis.
And he's been doing this for six years.
The repetition is trolling; the condescension is trolling; posting the same two links to some journal literally hundreds of times is trolling. Calling his bizarre idea “standard biological definitions” in every single post is trolling.
Colin won’t ban anyone. SS needs a block feature.