Not me, but if you’ve been following the drama, they removed this post about the unique issues we face as “divisive.”
It fucking sucks. There’s been a lot of discussion in other trans masc spaces about “transandrophobia” and this seems to absolutely demonstrate it. We aren’t treated seriously in spaces that should be welcoming for us.
People assume “trans” means trans woman. Spaces for trans people are often for trans women. Jamison Green wrote a while back about us not really having our own community, decades ago, and it still feels true today.
I know tons of trans people on discord. What makes it unsafe for them?
I think there’s a disconnect between people who use discord as an IM client and people who use discord as a way to find communities. Ive been using discord since like the friends and family alpha, and I’ve never once joined a server that was larger than “4-12 people I know irl who hate group texts.” The way I understand and think about discord is drastically different from somebody who uses it more like a decentralized forum full of hobby or creator driven communities. I’d guess that the latter half is what is being referred to as dangerous for trans folk, but again I cannot confirm as discord is functionally equivalent to like MSN messenger for me
I’m part of some pretty large discord communities and I wouldn’t describe any of them as hostile to trans people. However, I am not trans, so I was curious if there was some insight I was missing out on.
Discord has been really useful to find and talk to other trans people
I wouldn’t personally call the whole platform unsafe. A lot of big servers, yeah not gonna be too great.