#predesterone

[mschelle]

Well hot damn if it wasn't enough for this loser to throw a public tantrum now he's going out of his way to follow predestrogen on other platforms and start harassing her there!!! You can't hide these Matt I got the screenshots lol!!!!!!

HE'S BLATANTLY LYING OUT OF HIS ASS!! SPREAD IT AROUND!! And also since she seems to be from Ireland even though I don't even know shit about eu laws from what little I do know this is a big violation of GDPR and should be reported as such!! https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rights-citizens/redress/what-should-i-do-if-i-think-my-personal-data-protection-rights-havent-been-respected_en

[puphoods]

ive only seen bits and pieces of what happened to predesterone, i know they got deleted (at least twice) and the ceo is making defamatory statements about them, but im genuinely confused as to where I could find this all going down. if u dont wanna gather links or whatever i get it its just that everything popped up on my dash suddenly and i want to know whats happening but i dont know how to find out

theres obviously a lot of people posting rn but ill try to get some links together to sum it up as best i can find- keep in mind i never followed her myself and only distantly knew of her so there are people closer to the situation that probably have more stuff they can tell you though, and searching her url(s) has a lot of info

avery has i think two blogs deleted yeah, unsure about any older ones but predstrogen and avewy/predesterone were both deleted very recently

predstrogen (the first blog) was allegedly deleted for "sexually explicit material" despite any posts that may have been labelled as such being marked with a community label and her blog recently being manually approved as NOT containing adult content. she also talks in this post, as well as here, about how she has had a support ticket open for several months for harassment she was receiving that has not been dealt with

this is an example of the threats and harassment she has been receiving. ive seen a few different people get this ask copy pasted

the CEO of tumblr made a post wherin he publicly aired information regarding her deletion and threatened legal action against her , showing examples of the alleged death threats where no actual threats were made and telling people in the replies to just leave if they were unhappy with the moderation of the site

avery made a post about this and her new blog was again deleted within five minutes of her making it

multiple people who have made posts about the situation have said matt has DMed them and confronted them

this is word im hearing secondhand, so if i get any details wrong please correct me, but posts of hers such as her transition timeline are apparently ones that were flagged. i cant find any screenshots but many of her posts, including one that was a silly edit of a snow leapord wearing shoes, have been completely wiped from the site. if anyone has a screenshot or link to both the original post and it being deleted i can add it to this

again there are a lot of posts going around but these are i think what you really need to know whats going on...

[thorndvst]

Trans geber

Fuck @staff

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[pavlovs-puppygirl]

it is INCREDIBLE to me that this mother fucker thinks we will buy this shit, ESPECIALLY after on the next fuckin morning he was still harassing predesterone on twitter. Not only that but this man is desperately grasping at straws lying his ass off trying to go "IM NOT THE BAD GUY"

Dude got his feelings hurt a little and has since gone on a full fuckin meltdown, and his actions have stated tumblr is not a safe place for trans women

[undead-gynoburst]

So at what point do transfems take the hint, abandon this shitshow, and make our own website, forum, discord server, whatever the fuck will let us just exist without banning us so hard that our transition photos get nuked, that random shitheads make up sex crimes to accuse us of, and so much more?

Because this is beyond too much. My discord is butchofsalmacia, add me if you're transfem, and drop your non-tumblr contact info in the notes, too. Let's network and get the fuck out of this.

[toiletcult]

IDK if I can list all the things wrong. I'll group them.

"...every single violation..." Yeah, hyperbole is working terrifically for you. Keep going, yes. Go, go go!

"Make exceptions?" Oh, you blew past that a while ago, dude. You're nipple deep in totally professionally compromised.

Oh, believe me, bro. You were never going to change any minds, only confirm all the accusations against you. Or prove you're a nitwit. Both, probably.

"The entire staff?" Hyperbole! It's such a fall color, though. Are you sure you want to keep going with that? (Hyperbole for $8 thousand million, Alex! Ohhh kay.)

"I'm not going to spend a minute looking for a better example, even though I fucked up and should actually be motivated to do so. I simultaneously cannot look up her info, yet could access her violations, which I'm not gonna do, because wah. So there! 🙊🙉🙈 And I'm going home to my mommy." 😭 B o o. H o o.

"If you don't like it, then you can get the FUCKout!" "I guess this platform just isn't for you people."

"I am infallible, therefore my judgments are never wrong." "I'm not sexist, therefore nothing I've said or done can be called sexist, ever since I read that one book my ex gave me." "You can't question my competence or judgment because I promise you I'm a good feminist! The best one at twitt- I mean tumblr!" (Uh oh! The best is him? It? Whatever, I'm treating his statements as neutered entity/objects... 😜 )

[ramseyr]

Also @staff

I'm not clicking on your ad links. Reinstate trans peoples accounts. And fire your CEO mattbrat.

[oingus-boingus]

hey, saw you were looking for possible effective templates for reporting the bs from last night, so this is what I ended up sending in, in case it's at all helpful. I personally think it's terrible for more reasons than listed here, but I was trying to keep it to things that were directly actionable and most likely a violation of their previous agreement (I also included relevant screenshots)

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I imagine you may be getting more than a few of these in the near future, but despite the previous decision made by your office regarding gender identity discrimination in moderation on Tumblr their CEO has spent a large portion of his night actively ranting about a trans woman that was banned, which seems immediately discriminatory considering this is not normal process for banned accounts on Tumblr (which he even acknowledged, saying company policy in these matters is normally to stay quiet). Furthermore I am concerned about his admission that as of last year, Tumblr did indeed have a transphobic moderator contracted who was also "selling moderation". Despite his claim of having spoken about this before, I had never heard or seen this anywhere on the site (nor had anyone else). Additionally, Matt gave no exact information on the date, but it seems to me that there is every chance this happened after the 180 days given to Tumblr for compliance, and I'm certainly confused as to how it happened if they had actually taken the measures in training and oversight that was asked of them. Beyond that, at least one former employee has noted that trans members of staff may be unfairly targeted for firing, and do not feel safe voicing concerns about transphobia and other possible discriminatory practices. Given that the CEOs behavior this evening involved banning other accounts critical of his decision and going so far as to private message individual users on the platform, I at minimum do not feel comfortable raising any discriminatory issue with Tumblr or Automattic staff given the possible repercussions, and his recent public statements regarding race and gender only suggest this issue will continue to worsen without intervention.

I thank you for your time in reading and hope that someone, possibly, can protect marginalized Tumblr users, because the one clear statement their CEO has made tonight is that he has no plans to, and I would argue he's actually made it less so.

Thank you! This is a great resource for anyone who was feeling like they wanted to contribute a complaint but was unsure what template might work!