I really need folks to be aware that there is an active and ongoing smear campaign being run against transmascs on this site, and that it is doing real harm to the people involved.
I hesitate to speak on this issue at all, partially because I don't want to add fuel to the fire & partially because I am very, very bad at defending myself in the face of accusations without feeling immensely guilty and fake. I generally try I try to just let my actions speak for themselves instead.
This has escalated to the point that folks are afraid for their livelihoods as well as their physical health, though. @anarchist-luke was nearly kicked out of a community related to his online business because people in it were taking the smear campaign at face value.
Other folks involved are in vulnerable enough situations that they have to regularly ask for financial support here, and this impacts their ability to receive it.
Look: yall do not need to take any of us at face value. I hate the whole "pointing fingers back and forth" thing, trying to parse situations where it's easy to be wrong either way. I'm sure most, if not all of the people involved would also rather not things end up framed that way, too. But I need people to know that this is happening at all, and I need yall to be more critical about what you're taking as fact- and from who.
So let me give you some background.
Over half a year ago now, @bifey created a callout post for @saint-dionysus (now @dead-dyke ) that included mostly fabricated accusations. I was added to a list of "people who support this person and also need to be canceled" when I made this post, which references the callout only because it was the most recent callout I was sent; and censored any identifying information besides (how bifey found the post and decided it was about them, I still don't know.)
As for the accusations in the post: the vast majority of "evidence" is actually from a password-protected nsfw roleplay blog, and shows only consensual interactions with personal kinks (some of them not even belonging to Saint in the first place). This "evidence" exposes the subject's personal sex life to a public forum without consent. Whatever your feelings on the relationship between kink and morality, I feel very strongly that dissecting someone's morality based on private information they did not give you consent to access is highly inappropriate.
What is not taken non-consensually and out of context is the accidental use of a common internet term that doubles as an anti-indigenous slur. Saint responded somewhat defensively when first called out about this, but changed his behavior.
Bifey added several people to their running list of "people who support this" which includes, to my knowledge, exclusively trans people- largely transmascs who speak up about our experiences, which bifey makes very clear on their blog they outright disagree with. Transfems have also been included on their list of "transmisogynists".
I have received months upon months of harassment because of this smear campaign. Between anon asks sent to myself and my friends, anons sent to complete strangers who happen to interact with my posts, callout posts for me, and callout posts for people who happen to interact with me... I ignore it as much as possible, but imagine searching yourself and finding this:
Note the language used here: accusations are broad, vague, and do not come with any examples or proof, claims about how I'm marked on shinigamieyes are not consistent, and words like "well-known" are dropped into accusations to discourage anyone from looking into this themselves.
Since the original callout, @witches-ofcolor has apparently taken over the mantle here. There have been numerous additional callouts, asks, "reminders", etc., all of them apparently just for associating with the "wrong" people.
Yall need to do research yourself when you hear accusations. You need to ask for examples and proof, and you need to investigate these things yourself. (And if you do find proof, consider asking the person about that stuff; did they know that what they said was hurtful? Are they growing and making changes? Find out whether it was an honest mistake, or actual maliciousness.)
And most importantly, ask yourself what this person has to gain by making these claims.
Why is @witches-ofcolor spending so much time and energy on "cancelling" transmascs known for speaking up about transmasc struggles?
Why is she so intent on silencing and ostracizing us? What about the accusations of sex-related "crimes" leveled against trans people- transmascs and transfems included?
What do they stand to gain from this? What benefit comes from ostracizing, isolating, and silencing us?
Someone who genuinely cares about these issues should seek growth and change. Someone who only wants silence will use these "crimes" as a way of guilting and pressuring people into ostracizing the accused.
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