This Is Ridiculous I Cant Believe They Can’t Be Assed To Ban Such Obvious Hate And Threats - Blog Posts

shiftuu

1 year ago

Tumblr is still actively endorsing transphobia on this website. Reblog the fuck out of this.

Tumblr got back to me about a report for once... Just to tell me that the blatant transphobia I reported "does not violate community guidelines."

These are the posts which Tumblr staff decided should be kept on the platform, with screenshots.

Also, I apologize in advance for censoring the usernames of the transphobes in the screenshots. Tumblr does absolutely nothing to protect its trans users, so I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up getting in trouble instead, just for including their usernames. I will mention, however, that every transphobe had transphobic dogwhistles in their usernames and/or bio. Transphobes are not difficult to spot. Staff are just apathetic at best, and actively transphobic at worst.

Exhibit A: A post in which someone repeatedly and explicitly misgenders trans women, fearmongers about "trans ideology," uses transphobic dogwhistles, and denies the existence of transmisogyny. This isn't even the full post; it was an incredibly long transphobic tangent. The comments were full of transphobes as well. None of them were banned. Tumblr staff think this is okay.

A screenshot of a transphobic post. The post says:

Hot Take #5

I understand radfems' insistence on emphasizing female suffering when it comes to talking about trans ideology. It IS important to talk about, because by trying to act like sex is something inconsequential, it ignores the very real suffering many people have faced on the basis of their sex.

BUT even if sex-based oppression didn't exist, trans women would still not be women. Even if adult human females weren't oppressed, trans women would still not be adult human females. It's just a fact.

I feel the need to bring this up because I often see TW responding to radfems being like "well trans women are catcalled and stalked by men sometimes". Like that sucks, but they still aren't women. But also, the thing about it is that when men do that kind of stuff to trans women, it is frequently toward trans women that pass. In these cases, I think it's safe to say that the perpetrator either thought they were a cis woman (with a vagina and all that stuff) or they can tell the TW is a biological male and it's motivated by homophobia. What people call "transmisogyny" is really just homophobia 99% of the time.

Exhibit B: A post in which someone delights in the idea of a trans person hurting themselves by "ripping at their surgery scars," with additional ableist undertones. Not a hypothetical trans person either; a real individual trans person. She was not banned.

A screenshot of a transphobic post. The post begins with an ask from a transgender person, which says "I'm taking so many hormones and getting so many surgeries I hope you're angwy ^_^"

The transphobe responded, "hmu when you get alzheimer's and forget you're trans and start ripping at the surgery scars :3 teehee"

Exhibit C: A post in which a self-proclaimed TERF refers to consensual gender affirming surgeries as "forced surgeries" and frames trans people as "Nazis and fascists" just for trying to become comfortable in our own bodies. She did this in direct response to trans people celebrating their own surgeries. She was not banned.

A screenshot of a post from a TERF, who reblogged a post from a trans person.

In the original post, an anonymous user sent an ask to a fellow trans person, saying "i hope these transphobes fuck off and also *gets top surgery*"

The trans person they sent the ask to said "YAY anon are you getting top surgery ???"

The TERF reblogged, saying "Transgender humour about forced surgeries: Not fascism or nazism. Normal humans want children to wait before accessing surgery and hormones: Literal nazis and fascists."

She included the tags #anon, #radical feminism, #feminism #radblr, #transgender, #radfem, #radical, #radical feminist safe, #terf, #terfblr, and #terfism.

Exhibit D: A post in which someone says "transgenderism is erasing women" and blames the existence of misgendering and degendering on trans people, as if we aren't also hurt by those things frequently. She also said that trans women are "not women" in comments on her own post. She was not banned.

A screenshot of a post from a transphobe. She starts the post with a screenshot from someone else on Reddit. The Redditor is a cisgender woman in her 40s, and she was ranting about her experience being misgendered and degendered due to her androgyny. Note that this started when she was a child and was called "it," which recently changed into her being called "they" instead. She says that she is supportive of trans people, but also feels like "they" has become a subtle way to misgender people who are gender nonconforming and don't use they/them pronouns. This is something transgender people also frequently point out.

The transphobe who shared the screenshot of the Reddit post said, "[People say] 'Transgenderism isn't hurting anyone' [but] it is. It's is erasing women."

Exhibit E: A post in which someone engages in a blatant form of Holocaust denial, by saying trans transgender and queer people "were not targeted" (while simultaneously casting doubt on the validity of those identities themselves by putting them in scare quotes). Trans persecution and book burnings are a well documented aspect of the Holocaust. This post was also reblogged by other transphobes. None of them were banned.

A screenshot of a post from a transphobe. The post says, "A gentle reminder for those trying to rewrite history, lot's of that going around on social media lately, but the Nazi's did NOT target 'Transgender' or 'Queer' people. They specifically targeted homosexuals point blank period. Heinz Heger has a phenomenal book about it."

Below the text is the cover of Heinz Heger's book, "The Men With The Pink Triangle."

@staff care to explain why you think these posts are okay? Would you like to tell us how and why these "don't violate community guidelines"? Did you learn nothing from the lawsuit that happened because of transphobia among staff? After everything that has happened, why is there still nothing being done about the rampant transphobia on this website?

Just curious.

Also, in case I get banned or this post gets deleted, here's an archived version of my post. Keep it tucked away somewhere.