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This post is "FYI only" for blahaj lemmy members. It is not a debate, and is not intended for non blahaj lemmy users to weigh in and offer opinions.

I recently received reports of a feddit.uk user espousing transphobia. Specifically, this was a feddit.uk user refusing to use the word cis, repeating the "adult human female" dog whistle, and claiming that trans women are not women. I approached a member of the feddit.uk admin team and raised my concerns and sought clarification of their stance on posts like this, where the transphobia is mostly dogwhistles, and "civil disagreement" on the validity of trans folk.

I was told by the feddit.uk admin that their preferred response is this kind of transphobia is to "sort it out through discussion and voting". However, the comments in question are currently more upvoted than downvoted, and little "sorting out" has occurred. The posts remain in place.

At this point, the admin stopped responding to my messages despite being active elsewhere on lemmy. When it became clear they were ignoring my messages and had no intention of removing the posts in question, I made the decision to defederate the instance.

I know some folk agree with the feddit.uk admins approach of pushback through discussion and voting, but this instance is not designed to be that kind of space. Blahaj lemmy is meant to be a place where we can avoid the rampant transphobia universally visible on nearly every other social media platform, and where we can exist without needing to debate our right to do so.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 37 points 1 week ago

I'm coming from a small brazillian instance and we're also getting attacks on the brazillian trans community, on our case is the medical association, dictating that doctors couldn't treat trans kids.

I asked my admin to support you and to de federate them until they change their policy, hope other instances join too.

[–] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 1 week ago

Thank you for your hard work on making blahaj a great place for everyone!

[–] Lenny@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 week ago

Non-blahaj user weighing in

Well done 👏👏👏

[–] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 week ago

Common Ada W

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 week ago

Thanks Ada!

I hope the feddit.uk admins reconsider their approach to moderating transphobia, but in the mean time I appreciate your protective stance. 💗

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 week ago

Stay classy, TERF Island.

[–] randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago

Sounds like the right move. Thank you.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago

thank u adaaaaa! luv u!

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago

Disappointing to hear from the feddit.uk. Hopefully they get their shit together, i like their admins.

[–] JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago

I appreciate you 🫶

[–] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 week ago

Funny, I already had feddit.uk instance blocked so this is nice, lol.

thank you mods

Thanks for doing good moderation, honestly it sucks that certain admin teams act like this and dont take bigotry seriously.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

trans women are not women

Wasn't this a recent court ruling in the UK? Which isn't great.

I don't know all of the terminology, but the entire argument over it just seems so stupid, how does letting trans people exist bother you in any way?

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yes, but the best thing is that it's not, like they are claiming, law. It is merely an interpretation. It doesn't stop us from doing anything we were doing previously though ultimately a lot of transphobes and business will inteprate it that way, sadly. Plus there is some whisperings of it meaning certain legal things but it isn't that yet. The Equality Act needs to be updated anyway and if it was this would make the supreme court's ruling null and void.

Even if it does mean new laws most of us will probably break them anyway as unjust laws are not worth paying any attention to.

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[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thank you for facilitating a safe place and for the transparency

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago

It's a shame that that's their stance as I post on communities there fairly often and at least some of the mods have outwardly come to defend trans people in the comments of my posts before. That said, I understand the decision.

[–] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago

Blahaj admins try not to be based challenge (impossible)

[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago

I approve. Good work.

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