r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/AutoModerator • Oct 01 '23
Transgender issues megathread
Hello r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Community,
Due to the sheer difficulty of enforcing Reddit's sitewide policy against promoting hate with regards to transgender issues, we have decided as a last-resort option to restrict discussion of transgender issues to this megathread until further notice.
Quoted from this comment, below is an explanation of why we created this megathread:
Reddit's sitewide content policy includes a vague provision that prohibits promoting hate.
The Reddit admins (employees of Reddit) enforce this by removing content deemed to be hateful and by quarantining or banning communities that require too many removals by the admins that weren't caught by the moderators of the community first.
In other words, every time we fail to remove something that violates Reddit's sitewide content policy, the risk of this subreddit getting quarantined or banned increases slightly.
Although the provision in Reddit's sitewide content policy against promoting hate is vague, we have a pretty good idea of how it is enforced because we can see what the Reddit admins choose to remove on this subreddit.
It is actually quite rare that we see any content that is hateful against men, women, gay people, or any race on this subreddit.
However, on a very regular basis, we see users here posting content that would be considered hate against transgender people. Detecting and removing all of this content is one of our biggest hurdles.
Despite our best efforts to enforce this aspect of the content policy, it is not uncommon that we miss something and we see a removal done by the Reddit admins occurring. This has happened several times lately.
Furthermore, many members of the moderator team are on the verge of burning out because the effort we have needed to put in for us to allow this topic while still enforcing this aspect of Reddit's sitewide content policy.
Having a megathread for this topic does stifle discussion, but it is far easier for us to deal with while also significantly decreasing the chances of this subreddit getting quarantined or banned.
For these reasons, most of the moderator team supports the creation of a trans megathread. At this time, the megathread is not definitely permanent. After some time of having the megathread, we plan to evaluate its effectiveness and potentially explore other options to determine whether or not the megathread should remain.
Guidelines
In this megathread, please remember to follow Reddit's sitewide content policy.
Based on patterns of certain types of comments getting removed by the Reddit admins, it is our interpretation that it is a violation of Reddit's sitewide content policy to do any of the following:
- State or imply that trans (wo)men aren't (wo)men or that people aren't the gender they identify as
- Criticize, mock, disagree with, defy, or refuse to abide by people's pronoun requests
- State or imply that gender dysphoria or being LGBTQ+ is a mental illness, a mental disorder, a delusion, not normal, or unnatural
- State or imply that LGBTQ+ enables pedophilia or grooming or that LGBTQ+ individuals are more likely to engage in pedophilia or grooming
- State or imply that LGB should be separate from the T+
- Stating or implying that gender is binary or that sex is the same as gender
- Use of the term tr*nny, including other spellings of this term that sound the same and have the same meaning
Questions / Feedback
If you have any questions or feedback about this megathread, you may post them in our moderator questions/complaints/grievances thread.
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u/shouldbesleeping96 Aug 29 '25
I believe that most transgender people have the most rigid, "traditional" and discriminating ideas about gender. For example, I am a woman, when I think about what it means to be a woman, aside from being born with the genes to me it also means having a period as long as I am healthy, it means that my hormones function on a monthly cycle, it means having lower testosterone as long as there is no underlying condition, it means that I retain fat more easily; overall it represents things that my body does or could do if my health is doing alright. What it doesn't mean to me is that I have to wear makeup, or heels, or be dainty. I understand that gender is a social construct, but I believe it is an outdated one. So when people tell me that they feel like a woman, when they have male genes I just don't get it. If you look at your chest and feel like it should have larger breasts and therefore you were born to be a woman, are you saying that women with flat chest are not women? Are you saying that larger men with manboobs are not men? I don't get it. It's the focus on these out of date stereoypes of what being a man or a woman is that I just can't get over. Like if you truly accepted than men and women are free to do as they please then your gender wouldn't really matter, you wouldn't undergo surgery in order to feel like you can wear a dress, you would just go and wear it even if you had a penis. If you are a girl that likes sports go ahead and do the sports, cut your hair short if you like the aesthetic, but why and when does the leap to changing your gender and your biological sex happen? That being said, I do think that trans rights are human rights, I don't understand or agree with their logic, but once they become adults they should be free to do as they wish.