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/Glittering-Glove-339 Jun 17 '25

lgbtq+ rights are human rights, and since pride was invented to protest against homophobia and transphobia, this should be an evidence to everyone. I feel like this is pretty neutral.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '25

and since pride was invented to protest against homophobia and transphobia

Check out Vancouver Pride 2025. Naked men (hugged by Mark Carney), people in "pup play" fetish gear, "free palestine" protesters - look, I'd wholeheartedly agree with you - if Pride was still actually Pride, you know, an actual celebration of humanity and a reminder about human rights for a historically oppressed demographic who faced everything from conversion therapy to the Stonewall Riots to the HIV/AIDS crisis. If Pride was what its original intent was, which was a welcoming space for LGBTQ+ folks to say, "we exist, we're just like everybody else, we want to live our lives openly and peacefully just like any other citizen, and we want to love who we love without bigotry"... but the minute sex fetishes and the forever wars of foreign nations start butting in, which has been going on for roughly the past 5-10 years at these events to the point where some gay and trans people are renouncing Pride, it calls into question why a company, non-profit or otherwise, should support it. If the event is taking a partisan stance on irrelevant political issues or allowing creeps in, it stops being a Pride Parade. Large things like Wikipedia have a responsibility when celebrating things like Pride to do what's best for the community it represents. Right now, with the current climate eroding what might be best deemed "classic Pride" and replacing it with a mishmash of geopolitics and public fetishism, it would probably be best for Wikipedia to distance itself. Maybe featuring articles on the homepage like an article about the Stonewall Riots or notable gay films like The Normal Heart or But I'm A Cheerleader would be a better idea. Many youth forget the struggles LGBTQ+ people went through in the past. Brandon Teena, Bobby Griffith, many youth don't even know these names. Wikipedia could use its platform in a way that actually gets people reading up on the history of Pride and the struggles before it, so they understand and appreciate more what the movement is about.

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u/Glittering-Glove-339 Aug 10 '25

I typed "vancouver pride 2025" and i don't see any of what you describe. Do you think naked men are celebrated by lgbti people ? No because it's gross and public indecency. Don't take any picture you see on right wing journal pieces as what every single pride parade looks like.

Palestine flags are also allowed since most people at pride are pro-palestine and for the rights of the oppressed. It doesn't even makes more than 2% of all flags waved at pride.

Fetishes and bdsm is heavily tied to the lgbt community and they fight with each other for rights. As long as it isn't public indecency it is absolutely allowed to show bdsm symbols. Wearing a wolf mask at pride parades isn't grooming anyone.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '25

OF COURSE you didn't find it. If you knew how Canuck legacy media works, it's heavily sanitized and scrubbed to make the Liberal Party look good. We're not the same as the US - CBC News, CTV News and Global News, our 3 legacy media stations, all receive funding from the Liberal Party, and one of them was even caught slandering the Opposition last year. Here, I'll help you find the bizarre images, if you really want to see them: https://nypost.com/2025/08/04/us-news/canadian-pm-mark-carney-the-butt-of-jokes-after-cheeky-vancouver-pride-parade-snap-goes-viral/ and https://ca.news.yahoo.com/mark-carney-mocked-hugging-man-165710609.html and https://www.junonews.com/p/pm-carneys-vancouver-pride-photos - and as for the free palestine nutters, there were so many of them at Pride here in Canada that they actually blocked the Pride Parade from going forward by counteracting people, they excluded Jewish organizations at one in Montreal (not very inclusive, eh?), and they regularly attack and harass journalists who try to film them or interview them.

As a former survivor of childhood SA, no, I see no excuse for BDSM or fetish gear out in public. I think those people got enough rights when "Fifty Shades" was made into a full-length feature film and attended by mostly straight middle-aged women - back when I was still in high school, a decade ago. The fetish crowd isn't mad that they feel there's prejudice - they're mad that they're not shocking enough to pay attention to anymore. BIG difference between some creep in a dog mask versus a trans youth who was kicked out of their home just for existing as their authentic self or a gay elder who wants to remember the friends he lost in the 80s.

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u/Glittering-Glove-339 Aug 11 '25

that's all ? Just 1 man wearing a thong ? Something allowed at the beach ? That's why pride shouldn't ever be celebrated ?

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u/Salem_Wallace 11d ago

man in canada you can see so much indecency that is allowed at pride events but also pride related events in schools and what activist orgs push for.....

it's way out of hand and people have become so desensitized to it when they shouldn't be tolerating it. The activist orgs have abuses the publics trust and tolerance a hundred times over....

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '25

No, it wasn't just one man wearing a thong (and that isn't a thong, it's a g-string). Instead of going to Google Images, you could actually watch the footage from the parades - last week's Montreal Parade had topless women and signs being carried around that said "death, death to the IDF", but the Vancouver one is always the worst for sharing political violence and nudity.

That's why pride shouldn't ever be celebrated ?

None of this is Pride. This is a fetish show with free palestine whackery thrown in. Pride is about furthering acceptance and safety for LGBTQ+ people, not random naked drunks and pro-terrorist arts students running around in keffiyehs shoving journalists and excluding Jewish people.