Hi those from all! We're a women's only community, men we appreciate your interest but please do not comment 😊
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- Women only… trans women are women, and transphobic or gender critical talk isn’t allowed. Any woman-identified person under the trans umbrella (e.g. non-binary, bigender, agender) is welcome.
- Don’t be a dick. No personal attacks, no aggression, play nice.
- Don’t hate on groups, hatefilled talk about groups is not allowed. Ever.
- No governmental politics, so no talk of Trump actions etc. We recommend Feminism@beehaw.org for that, but here is an escape from it.
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It's the post body text on this current post we're replying under.
If a bigender person who is a woman and a man read this, she'll feel that she's being told not to comment, because she's a man. Excluding men will exclude some women, because some women are bigender men.
oh, you're talking about the body text of this post? This is a meme post, not a rules or policy page.
We have seen participation from trans men without issue already, I don't think this body text in a random post is going to make a huge difference - the rules and the sidebar already explicitly includes women-identifying bigender people.
Avoiding microaggressions is an important part of curating a space that feels inclusive. Explicit rules don't do much to make minorities feel included if those minorities feel that the implicit rules are different from what's being said. I saw a Reductress article a while ago that really speaks to this issue and made me think. Now, the accusation in the article isn't what I think is going on here, and I don't mean to be as confrontational as the article is, but I think it's a really good read for anyone, and especially anyone curating a women's space who wants to be trans inclusive.
https://reductress.com/post/4-inclusive-statements-that-arent-women-and-non-binary-people-i-consider-women/