Regular FWR (and wider MN topics) poster here but have recently NC'd.
There's obviously a lot of (not unfounded) concerns about the new guidelines and what they will mean.
That said, I'm not flouncing because I think there is one very important "victory".
That's the proposal to ban members who repeatedly report posts that don't breach TG's.
I'm pretty certain there are a lot of activists with MN accounts who don't necessarily post but monitor FWR and report with zealous abandon.
Those that do post, often to provoke and "gain" those (often out of context) screen shots to boost their Twitter following whilst also mass reporting against alternative views on their threads, have their hands tied far more than us by these new guidelines. The more zealous the reporting the more likely they are to be banned.
Yes - there are concessions that will have to be made on the use of terminology and pronouns, but frankly I don't feel these issues cannot be overcome, through I do concede I'm going to have to think a lot more carefully about how I articulate some of my views.
Like many, I have days of utter frustration and despair but ironically today wasn't one of them.
FWR is still here. We are still talking and debating.
In RL people are becoming more aware of this issue and (in my personal experience) find it incomprehensible that the denial of biology, impact on sports, removal of single sex spaces and "selling" trans ideology to children has any traction and merit at all.
So I'm here, I'd like to stay and will do my level best to stay within TG's whilst not diluting my opinion.
