UPDATE: ADMIN STATEMENT IN COMMENTS

Leadership of Lemmy has dug in their heels and shown that they will be slow to remove overt homophobia, sexism, and transphobia on this platform. Administration will spend hours or days of effort defending these people to justify a ban that would be instant on other platforms.

You are not safe here. I recommend migrating to either Lemmygrad.ml or Hexbear.net (Hexbear being much less sectarian but the people on Lemmygrad are very cool 😎). Please take care out there. Fuck the patriarchy! Trans rights are human rights! ✊

Receipts:

https://lemmy.ml/post/470384/comment/276139

https://lemmy.ml/post/89596/comment/92129

https://lemmy.ml/post/470384/comment/275398

  • Seanchaí (she/her)@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    So it’s dissonance for queer people to feel safe on lemmygrad (a forum that explicitly bans queerphobia) because of some positive sentiment for Russia in certain regards

    Meanwhile: Conversion therapy is legal in every European country except France and Malta

    Half of Europe still requires trans people to get sterilized. Most of Europe requires mental health diagnoses. Most don’t have anti-discrimination laws. Italy requires trans people to get divorced. Most of Europe doesn’t recognize trans parenthood. Iceland is the only European country that recognizes non-binary people.

    Don’t even get me started on what the UK and the US are doing about trans people. Would you like to read some articles about how “safe” queer people are in Ukraine?

    So does your instance allow pro-European conversation? Shouldn’t queer people feel unsafe in forums that say anything pro-US? Pro-Ukraine? Pro-EU?

    Or is it ridiculous to call that dissonance?