Further information on the situation with the transphobia: Abigail has repeatedly misgendered me and defended her choice by saying she chooses to refer to all people of unknown gender as male.

Hey, Abigail here. I just want people to know the reason this person got banned is likely because of a deleted comment not included in that thread. OP called me ~~autistic ~~ mentally unwell for not liking politics. THAT kind of behavior is not acceptable on lemmy.blahaj.zone, so I reported the comment and let Ada handle it. Ada tried in good faith to reason with OP but it was clear they just wanted to fight. So yeah, they got banned. Ada’s a fantastic lady who’s been great at keeping the trolls at bay.

Edit: and the bit about me misgendering them is also wrong. Gender didn’t come into play until after I had left the conversation. English default on the internet is male for strangers.

Source:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2319669

WRT the statement that I accused them of autism for not liking politics, further info is available here: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2319669 https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2320815 https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2321026

  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I know nothing about this whole affair, but the tabloid-like inflammatory way this is phrased is immensely offputting.

    • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I went digging into this, and there is definitely a side to this story that OP is conveniently omitting. They claimed that everything is political. Their original accusation of Transphobia against a Trans Person was not because of the above statement, but because that person said they desired a safe space without politics. Ada never defended the above statement, she tried to reason with OP that you can’t expect fellow queer folks to have the spoons to be political all of the time.

      A couple days after making my account, I saw someone on Blahaj engaging in the tired old cliche of “I hate politics, there’s no politics on my social media and I want to keep it that way!” Well we’ve all heard the joke that the two races are white and political, the two genders are male and political, and the two sexualities are straight and political. Hatred of politics is a transphobic, sexist, and racist trope. And having sufferred harassment and abuse from people inside the queer community who “hated politics” and saw trans or nonbinary or xenogender identities as political, I knew this kind of speech was going to make bigots feel comfortable saying they also hate politics, and they think us trans people are it.

      This is from OPs last post, which is where the above statement was posted in reply as a comment. At that point, their accusation of transphobia was SOLELY based on a trans person not wanting politics on their social media. Personally, as someone who has multiple disabilities, I think it’s ableist to suggest that my entire existence needs to be political.

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        Straight up having a place I can go where my existence is not considered political is really nice

        I can just go and be me

        Who I am, what I am, where I’m from, how I got to where I am now, none of that matters

        I can be here and be me

        Having that is so immensely valuable to people it’s amazing

        It’s a breath of fresh air in a world full of shit