I don’t think the person on the left’s a transphobe, but I also don’t think they understand the scale of the harassment trans people face on a daily basis. Like it’s so bad the users would rather just have potential trolls ignored and downvoted than to see well meaning cis people come in and do vigilante justice using the same tactics of abuse trans people go through every day.
That empathetic disconnect looks like transphobia to some users. I don’t know that the users are right, but I understand how you reached that conclusion, especially with the person on the left’s days-long soapbox crashout about how despotic Ada is.
Look, I'll respect drag's pronouns, but I definitely don't respect drag. 5 minutes looking through drag's modlog was more than enough. Here are some highlights:
And thats all before we get to the bottom of the first page, which only goes two months back. Once again, drag deserves to have their pronouns respected, but that doesnt mean they deserve any other kind.
Dragonfucker also harassed me on an alt account, made many bad faith accusations towards me, told me to kill myself, even threatened to kill me. Every single comment pinged every one of my accounts. The last one was really scary because they asked Lemmy admins to help track me down so I could be tortured.
I've copied this elsewhere but I also think it's a good idea to share it here as well, see the spoiler below for screenshots of the abusive interactions from this alt (I censored the porn):
CW: Abusive content, threats, suicide encouragement, harassment
A lot of contextual information for these isn't here, to get it the admins of pawb.social and discuss.online would need to be contacted as the content and user accounts associated have been banned.
Edit: I'm so sure this was dragonfucker, I'd bet money on it. The circumstances were way too suspicious.
thank you. it’s utterly obscene how people will see awful actions like drag’s, and instead of combating the actions drag has done, just fight for their right to misgender and abuse.
i encourage everyone who sees these behaviors, from anyone, to bring them forward to mods immediately.
Here's the suicide comment for anyone curious, on a post where a user was in a mental health crisis and contemplating suicide.
Removed Comment If you're planning on [censored] yourself, go buy a [censored] and take a red hat with you. Drag is serious. Get out if you can. Move to another country. But if you're actually hopeless, and there's nothing anyone can say to dissuade you... Then make it count. by Dragon Rider (drag) @lemmy.nz reason: Advocating violence, encouraging suicide
actually disturbing, i didn’t know the context was this dire too :(
consider putting this in a content warning spoiler? i don’t want you getting whacked for reposting harmful content 🫶
::: spoiler CW: banned comment encouraging suicideGood idea. Couldn't figure out the formatting on mobile but I censored the disturbing parts. I'm sure mods will remove the comment if they deem it unfitting for the community.
Here's an example if it helps,
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