Quickly going through the modlog of that community I’ve found these three comments that were removed for no other reason than they didn’t align with what some mod thinks, along with a lot of people who were banned with the reason “liberal”.

I don’t even agree with these comments, but that doesn’t matter. You’re willing to host that community to give them a voice, while the mods stifle dissent and ban anyone who disagrees.

The ones who are more on the left are exactly the ones who are less inclined to vote, so yes.

I fail to see how that community is pushing back against any system by repeating the same tired talking points that dissuade people from voting.

I bet the guy wasn’t sober when he did that. He probably still thinks that way – alcohol doesn’t make people lie, it makes them far too honest – but realized the next day that the way he had acted was screwed up.

I don’t want to come out to people, telling them that I feel like a woman, when I look and sound like a man.

I understand where that comes from, and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think the same way when I started transitioning. I pretty much never corrected people when they misgendered me, because I didn’t want to get in their way. I felt as if I hadn’t earned being a woman yet. Now I understand that gender isn’t something you earn. You deserve being treated for who you are, despite how you look or sound like.

I’ve been on HRT for 7 months or so, and I just don’t look feminine.

HRT is basically puberty 2.0, and puberty takes many, many years to complete. I know how frustrating it is to wait for the changes, but that should also give you hope. Even if you don’t like how you look now, that can and probably will change over the years.

It’s nice to see more poetry around here

We already have “trans pride” and “gender envy”, what about trans sloth?

Now it’s more important than ever to go. We need to show the transphobes and homophobes out there that we LGBTQ+ people and our allies are far more numerous than they think.

God I hate medical gatekeeping. Good luck to you

Thank you for your kind words.

I managed to get myself into a pretty ridiculous problem.

I wrote a short novel that I wanted to share on here (since it has plenty of trans characters), but there’s no way to upload a PDF to Lemmy, and I don’t want to use google drive or anything of that sort because of the privacy implications. Well, no big deal, I told myself, I can just upload it into that transreads.org site someone linked the other day. But I wrote it under a pen name, without any mention to this username, and the upload process is completely anonymous, so now I have no way to prove I wrote my own book.

At least the book is still being reviewed, so it’s not been released yet and there shouldn’t be any other mentions to it anywhere else. So for the record, the book is titled “The witches of Galree” and the pen name I used is Emily Mathison Lovelace. Hopefully that will be enough to prove I’m really the author when the reviewing is over.

Also, if anyone knows a way to share this PDF here, please let me know.

My female friends accepted me as one of them immediately, no questions asked. Nowadays I’d say anything less than that is disrespectful, but back then it meant the world to me.

I’m in awe that so much prejudice can fit in so few words.

Thanks for linking that transreads.org site, it seems very interesting.

It’s been a while since I’ve read it so I don’t remember that school festival thing. I do remember the story becomes a lot more serious towards the end, with Mogumo’s family and all, but I like it that way. There were problems Mogumo was running from that had to be solved before one could say the story was finished.

There’s still some progress to be had and things I’d like to work on, but I’m so, so much better off now than when I started, both physically and mentally, it’s honestly unreal

I wonder why you picked that username

A manga called Love me for who I am.

The main character is non-binary but presents in a feminine way, and they’re recruited by a classmate to work on a maid cafe. The story is very sincere, and shows many of the struggles we face. I’ve read it pretty early on my transition and related hard to many of the characters. On that note, there’s so many colors of the rainbow in there – trans women, cross-dressing cis guys, gay guys, a lesbian woman, and of course the non-binary protagonist. It’s a great story.

I don’t see anything indented on yours though? I do on the one you replied to.

The idea that gender is entirely socially constructed is easily the greatest misconception about gender that gets repeated time and again – almost always by cis people, who never think too much about it because they’ve never had to reconsider their own gender.

Gender roles and gender stereotypes really are socially constructed, like the idea that some clothes are feminine and others are masculine, just to name one example. Gender identity, however, is not. If that was true, like the previous commenter was saying, conversion therapy for trans people would work, when it’s been shown it absolutely doesn’t. Gender dysphoria isn’t a social construct either. Many trans people see their own lives improve considerably after taking HRT (hormone therapy) and having gender-affirming surgeries – how can that be explained socially? Also, we know there is a genetic component to being trans as well, because of twin studies. All of which shows there really is a biological component to gender – just not in the “gender = genitals” way that transphobes think.