I’m gonna get real with you folks, we’ve had way too many of these posts recently. I’ve been reflecting on this topic a lot the past few days. For me personally, I couldn’t care less about my gender identity. But just because that’s true for me, doesn’t make that true for everyone.

The beauty of the fediverse is that if you don’t like the way a particular instance or community is moderated you can simply choose another to hang out on, or create your own.

Blajah has made it pretty clear by now they will ban anyone who argues against the validity of xenogenders, in order to create a safe space for those folks. That’s fair enough imo.

Safe spaces should be respected, and Blajah’s admins/mods do not deserve abuse for creating and maintaining those spaces.

I can completely understand why Blajah users don’t want to have to constantly argue with external users about the validity of their chosen identities. Bans are one way Blajah has decided to manage that problem so that their users can experience lemmy in relative peace and safety. While it is a blunt tool and I have my reservations about preemptive bans, there are not many other options for @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone, other than defederation from most instances. That would be a terrible outcome for the fediverse as a whole.

In order to help Blajah to maintain their safe space, I would like to propose, if @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com agrees and community sentiment is positive:

  • that we no longer accept posts about this topic in this community; and
  • we also remove previous posts on this topic from the community.

That’s all folks, have at 'er.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    6 hours ago

    I actually have a pretty high opinion of PugJesus otherwise…

    I do too. He’s not wrong here. I just think it’s not productive to have extensive bitter arguments about it. I think it’s a selected group of users starting all the drama (I have no idea if because they are trolls or if because they are drama-loving people who like being able to sling around “transphobia!” because it makes them feel like they’re being good allies). Whatever it is, those people are having some level of success in restarting the drama here in these comments. I think continuing the drama in this fashion is playing precisely into their hands, so I support the proposal to ban talking about it here. But he’s not wrong.