Lesbian thread deleted

[ArabellaScott]

Hi there

A thread in Feminist Chat - 'Lesbian Groups' was just deleted as 'not in the spirit of the site'.

Could we get an explanation for this, please?

At least one MN regular feels this was homophobic.

Many thanks.

Never saw the thread but as a lesbian I am intrigued by what caused lesbians talking about our issues to be deleted. Perhaps we should have specific rules about what we can’t say..

It was about lesbian dating sites being overrun with males, and women being banned for any indication of only being interested in females. (How is banning lesbians not direct discrimination?)

Ironically the OP was by a very long-established lesbian poster who was for years a voice against the consensus in FWR - she would say that lesbians were not really having that many problems due to the "trans issue".

She's now seen it really hitting the spaces she's familiar with, and she's quite upset about it. But now she's having her threads pulled for talking about that upset.

This thread was prompted by one rather offensive male "let me be your first post-pandemic lesbian" post from her group.

Given that a screenshot was in the OP, and other commenters posted other male profiles from lesbian sites, I guess it may have been seen as targetting individuals?

Maybe you're allowed to talk about lesbian sites being overrun with males, but you can't illustrate it.

The thread deletion was unfortunate though, as there was a lot of heartfelt discussion. It was not about mocking the screenshots. Maybe just the images could have been removed?

A replacement thread has started here, but it's not the same: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4175389-lesbian-spaces

Hi there, just dropping in to say that we took that one down as a number of posts were reported for being unfairly outing for people.

Feel free to continue the discussion here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4175389-lesbian-spaces