"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 err…
"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.
"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.