Reddit has just banned the r/detrans subreddit

Phew. I’m glad it’s back. Bad enough that they are excluding women and lesbians from talking generally, but banning a support sub is disgusting.

Just popped over for my first read in a while and learned a new word ‘detransphobia’ - I like it.

Susie Green and her Mermaids charity are detransphobic. Stonewall are detransphobic, Trans Rights Activists in general are detransphobic.

Very useful word.

I am in shock that they banned truelesbians. I shouldn't be I suppose, after they appointed males to mod r/PCOS and banned the alternative subreddit that sprang up for PCOS sufferers who wanted to just talk about it with other women, with no one breathing down their neck telling them not to say that ovaries are female.

But the misogyny is so overt and undisguised! r/truelesbians mostly discouraged talk about trans issues and it wasn't specifically GC, it was just there as a place for lesbians who didn't want to see talk about girldick (or, you know, fucking PICTURES of girldick) on every post.

Women saying no to men is a hate crime. They believe it. Just... wow.

Would actually love to see the trans activists and their allies try to defend this. There's no way to spin this that isn't the simple truth - ten trans-inclusive spaces can exist but if even one space exists to exclude them, they'll try and get it shut down. Out of sheer spite.

I bet they will, with the usual baseless bigot accusations and 'literal violence' spiel. They never deviate far from the script.

For a group that's so 'excluded', they aint half promoting a hell of a lot of excluding 🤔

Oh good. There are so few spaces for retransmission people that they need this.

Detrans is back (for now, who knows how long)
But the others mentioned in this thread aren’t.

Yes it appears to be back up.

So they’re flip flopping?

I dont think this does good things for reddit

The whole point of reddit was a space where basically you could say what you wanted. This is why its been so loved by MRAs/Incels. It scares me how powerful the TRA movement is that it can get somewhere like reddit to essentially cancel women?

That thread wasnt transphobic, it was written by trans people! Its trying to tipex over the fact that detransition exists, in the hope the public wont notice

Whilst I can totally believe they banned the detrans sub and it's obvious why they did it, it's so utterly callous and chilling.

It seems to still be up from my Google search? Does it just take a while to vanish?

That's shockingly transparent. How can they justify targeting

Gender critical people
People talking about transitioning
Lesbians...

While allowing pretty much every perverse and violent fantasy.

This is just awful. How can they openly support rape porn but actively block one of the most vulnerable groups in society from being able to support each other.

They also deleted the Joanne Rowling group which was to discuss JKR and a group about women’s health. I have lost it now. I am deleting the app and telling them why.

Bloody hell.

It’s as if we sold the town square into private ownership and now the owners all admiring the Emperor’s new clobber and banning us all from commenting.

Who allowed the internet to become structured like this? Couldn’t Berners-Lee have done something cleverer than simply allowed the WWW to be a free for all?

So, to get my internet geography right, reddit is where all the MRA/Incels rule the roost, and Twitter is the natural playground for MAPs and other assorted delights? Nice to know the places not to go because the creepy people live there.

I'm not surprised, as we all knew the way Reddit was going. But I'm heartbroken for all the detransitioners who have just lost a valued resource and a much-needed community. I also feel for all those who would have read the forum or used it as a sounding board while they decided if detransition was right for them.

Detransitioners are already nigh on invisible. It just seems so cruel to take away one of the few online spaces they had.

I'm not a bit surprised the lesbian subs have got the chop. It's the fate of every lesbian space that holds firm on the exclusion of trans women. It still angers me though. They really have the gall to pretend they're not attacking us. They really behave as if J.K Rowling was talking utter shit when she claimed lesbians and gay men are losing the right to discuss our same sex attracted realities.

Would actually love to see the trans activists and their allies try to defend this. There's no way to spin this that isn't the simple truth - ten trans-inclusive spaces can exist but if even one space exists to exclude them, they'll try and get it shut down. Out of sheer spite.

Scary. Really scary. Those young people were desperately seeking help.

And now their voices have been erased.

LGBDroptheT gone too at about 20 k subscribers

Just awful.

I’m so upset about this. It was the one community and support group detransitioners had. I’m reading all the tweets by detransitioners about it right now and it’s incredibly sad. I hope someone can set up a new forum somewhere that is easily found.

Reddit is nothing more than a TRA/MRA platform now.

A fucking disgrace

Wow it’s shocking how transparent they are isn’t it!? 😮

r/detrans weren't even gender critical. They just had vulnerable people sharing their stories and experiences and trying to support one another.

Totally irresponsible.

ActualWomen and GenderCriticalGuys gone too.

Bunch of toddlers with their hands over their eyes, believing if they can't see it it's stopped existing.

Sorry guys. Reality's a bastard.