How depressing. It's everywhere. They've managed to shut down discussion everywhere else, including boards on gender criticism and women-specific health issues on Reddit and elsewhere.
Seems to me that aside from closed Facebook groups this is the last one standing.
The saddest thing is the old 'me' would have pulled out all the stops to protect trans people (and when I do see them in a situation where they are at risk of being 'outed', intimidated or discriminated against, I have protected them and continue to do so). I respect their choice of name. My old attitude used to be: why can't people just let other people be and respect their right to be who or what they want to be?
That was before certain vociferous activists started telling me I wasn't a woman, and as a rape victim denied the course of justice I should suffer the final indignity of remaining silent and not 'weaponising' my trauma. Men visited this on me - now they are telling me how I can and cannot respond to it. Fuck that noise.
So my attitude turned. Whatever women do it will never be enough. Because they're women, and that on its own seems enough to designate someone a 'transphobe'.
I know who the bigots are.