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Transphobia guidelines (feddit.uk)
submitted 1 week ago by flamingos@feddit.uk to c/feddituk@feddit.uk
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Good day all, in response to the increase in transphobia we've experience since the For Women Scotland v Scotland Supreme Court decision, seemingly a mix of genuine malice and people tripping up with a topic they're unfamiliar with, I've taken the initiative to write some guidelines on how to engage in the topic and clearing up some common misconceptions.

https://guide.feddit.uk/politics/transphobia.html

I'm not all that happy with them, I want something more comprehensive but my time has been pretty taxed lately and I don't want my perfectionism to stand in the way of having these out. If there's any issues, glaring omissions or whatnot, then please let me know or make a pull request here.

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[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Great initiative. Looks pretty well written from my point of view.

What's going to happen to repeated guideline breakers ?

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Depends on which guideline they break. The 41% one will probably be an insta-ban. Others will likely be an initial warning followed by temp bans escalating to a permaban.

[–] scuppie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm trans and I learned a lot myself from this. I might have brought up the 41% thing and not knowing its use, miscommunicated what I meant in support of trans rights. Glad to have read this, being trans doesn't automatically make you aware of every aspect of the conversations.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I imagine it would still depend on context. The guidelines don't say that the 41% figure is inaccurate (and from some extremely light googling of the cited organisation, ASFSP doesn't appear to be an anti trans pressure group so i'm inclined to take that figure on its face value). thus talking about that figure in the context of a wider discussion on trans issues, which absolutely includes a sky high suicide rate, is probably fine.

But as the guidelines say; using that figure to encourage someone to commit suicide is almost certainly a contravention. As is using it to justify ignoring a trans person or trans persons basic right to self determination

That said i'm not a mod, i'm not in their heads, so i could be wrong

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

Just want to point out that suicide rates/attempts are more a reflection of the way transgender people are treated than a some kind of pervasive mental illness. High-functioning autistic people also have very high rates of suicidal ideation and attempts, because--much like transgender people--they (we) tend to be socially isolated and ostracized. Transgender people that are in accepting communities and who have non-shitty parents tend to have much, much lower rates of suicidal ideation and attempts.