Sending good vibes to all of my trans comrades cat-trans

As a reminder, be sure to properly give content warnings and put sensitive subjects behind proper spoiler tags. It’s for the mental health of not just your comrades, but yourself as well.

Here is a screenshot of where to find the spoiler button.

  • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    4 months ago

    depends what you mean by “join”

    if confidently cis
    good things to do:

    • subscribe to the community and lurk only to get a better understanding of trans people
    • add pronouns in your display name to make the lemmyverse better for trans people
    • upvote posts and comments for visibility and support
    • cis questions go in a place like !askchapo@hexbear.net where trans people will respond because this is a trans majority instance, but it’s in a space users expect to interact with cis people

    don’ts

    • never downvote in the comm, you do not have the prerequisites to be entitled to an opinion on trans things. hexbear will discard it anyway but it affects visibility in your home instance and maybe others
    • don’t interact other than upvoting, this is a place to escape cis stuff that oversaturates almost every other space

    might be missing some points

    if exploring the possibility you are trans, congratulations, you are gender questioning and can comment here to help sort yourself out, make sure to use content warnings and spoilers and err on the side of using too many too often

    • P4ulin_KbanaPortuguês
      41·
      4 months ago

      Thank you for the explanation. I’ve probably got it.

      • add pronouns in your display name to make the lemmyverse better for trans people
        Would it also count if I added any symbol that I identify as male? Like “[male]” or the male gender emoji? By the way, what I meant by “join” is just following the community (UI Button). I’m bad at communicating online ☹️
      • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        nah, you’re good. and the pronouns thing is for interacting in english spaces and it’s fine to not add it if you only intend to lurk and learn and mostly interact in non-english space.

        male is a fine identity, but males can use any pronouns so a male may have [they/them] pronouns and still be male, so [male] is useless to indicate what pronouns to use

        do you want only [he/him]? do you mind people referring to you as [they/them] or [she/her]? if you don’t have pronouns preferences you can use [any] or [none/use name]