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Anyone know why there seems to be an uptick in transphobia on lemmy.world? Rule (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Been seeing more transphobia in general on lemmy lately, largely on lemmy.world communities

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I am assuming it may be related to a couple prominent news stories.

There was computer scientist Lynn Conway passing away recently, and in the thread for this article, there was some concern about the LA times author opting to use male pronouns to refer to Lynn pre-transition.

Then there was the other recent news of Lia Thomas being barred from participation in the Olympics, and any time there's a discussion about trans athletes in sports, it invites a whole lot of yikes.

Lemmy.world is the normie instance. Unsurprisingly, a lot of normies have bad opinions. If you run into transphobes, feel free to tell them what every transphobe needs to hear: "Go fuck yourself". Or block 'em and let them scream at a wall. It's good to nip bigotry in the bud before it grows, but it's also not worth letting people with hate in their hearts take up space in your mind's temple.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Some people may take this to an extreme and bully all lemmy.world users. Just a reminder that there are non-transphobes here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I'm the one who posted the Lynn Conway article in Technology and, as a trans person, the pronoun use in the article immediately stuck out to me as archaic, but at the time of posting there were few other news articles about her passing available. I was hoping that by acknowledging that the pronoun use in the article (for at least somewhat justifiable reasons in this case) not being in line with modern reporting that we could move past that and keep the comments more on topic for the community it was posted in. No luck. But, of the comments I saw, even the ones that had bad takes, none seemed actively transphobic - they just lacked an understanding of how respectful and not confusing reporting on trans people could be done.

It's the Lia Thomas discussions that turned into a dumpster fire and in some cases had to be locked. :/