Trans topic. Please.

Sorry the hiding bit you mentioned

Not the banning of threads

Thats a good idea wannabe that way the decision is in your hands

I dont think there shoukd be a trans topic

Just dont open the thread

To be fair, if people didn't keep talking about things that have already been addressed elsewhere, it wouldn't get so repetitive.

The 'problem' (obviously I don't actually think it's a problem) is that so many people are having their wtf lightbulb moment, so things end up getting discussed all over again each time a new person comes along

Whilst I agree with most of the opinions on trans threads, it's getting very repetitive and boring now. I'd probably hide them if I could.

I agree. I'm seeing way too much hate speech towards women who want to retain women-only spaces and do not want to share changing rooms and toilet facilities, or be imprisoned with biological males.

I'm not sure that having all trans related threads in one topic is the solution though.

Actually can I make another suggestion? if it's not possible to set up an individual topic, could tech instead build in a filter so users could customise talk for themselves? So I could add a filter for the word trans and that way every thread, every post, and every discussion which contained the word trans would automatically be hidden regardless of where it was posted. You could filter out anything else you didn't want to read that way as well....

Would we allow this level of hate speech towards black people? Or people with disabilities? No. This discussion has gone way too far. There might well be points to be discussed but people have lost the ability to do so rationally and without resorting to vitriol so the discussion needs to stop.

The reality is that most people are sick of the sight of trans threads. Anyone who thinks they have a point to make have missed their chance because the topic has been so overdone that most people don't open the threads, only the same posters over and over and over again to rehash the same discussion along the lines of "I don't want a man in my space/you're a transphobe/no I'm not she's not a woman she has a penis/who are you to tell people how to live/don't you know that trans women are all perverted sex offenders who are just out to violate women's spaces" and on and on and on .

The discussion has wandered far beyond the realms of discomfort and into hysteria. Personally I think they should be banned. The level of hatred and vitriol directed towards trans people on MN is far far worse than anything else which would be deemed acceptable on here.

Stop trying to make trans topic happen. It's not gonna happen.

Why do you have to hide whole topics?

Cant you not just scroll on by things that dont interest you.....saying that you have posted lots on the trans hen do thread so not really sure why you are moaning now.

So would a thread for example about a male rapist being moved to a women's prison be shoved in the trans topic? Because that ought to be in In The News, FWR, Chat, AIBU and anywhere else someone wishes to post it. There are plenty of subjects that are scattered all over the boards that I have no interest in so I just don't read them.

It isn't hard to understand. MN have said they won't create sections to corral debate. What's so hard to understand about that?

I use safari and yes I open each thread to hide it but it requires very little effort.

I hide it the first time I see it and don't read any of it. It's a painless process. People post in the wrong topic all the time anyway.

Most of the threads have trans in the title....so dont open it.
If it doesnt then you can just hide it and close it again.

I dont understand what is so difficult about that

How weird! I don't know what browser you're using.

This is what I see on Firefox (or Chrome)

I don't want to be silenced or othered.

Right so according to that logic every topic that has its own area is silencing and othering peoole?

I want to see the strength of feeling on a topic. I don't want someone else, who deems this an irrelevance, to determine that it should be hidden because it bothers them.

You would see it. It gives others the option to not see it. Or are you saying others shouldn't be able to use the hide button to hide a topic it because you don't want them to.