For Transgender Members: Sentiment Survey

[Debater Slayer]

Hi, all,

A few years ago, we (the staff) started a poll focused on conservative members of RF following our observations that some of them had been feeling increasingly alienated from the forum:

For Conservative Members Only: Do You Feel Comfortable Openly Expressing Yourself on RF?

This is to mirror another thread we started in order to gauge member sentiment. The other one was directed at all members, but this one is for conservatives only. Do you feel comfortable expressing your conservative beliefs on RF? If not, why not, and what would make you feel comfortable doing...

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The poll was part of an effort to address the underlying issues that had led to their sentiments, and the feedback on that effort was overall quite positive following its conclusion.

Similarly, we are now interested to know how transgender members of RF feel about the forum climate and whether they feel welcome here. This thread is to gauge their sentiments and inform our policies moving forward.

If anyone would like to provide feedback via PM or in Site Feedback rather than in this thread, feel free to do so.

Please avoid any debating in this thread. Its sole purpose is for transgender members to provide their thoughts on the question as directly and in as much detail as possible.

Thank you.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Bumping for more visibility.

 

[VoidCat]

Sometimes i feel welcomed. I do like how folk defend transfolk on here sometimes. But other times i feel unwelcome. It's hard dealing with my existence being constantly debated and reading some the more negative replies do get to me sometimes. One user I dont know who or what thread and i dont wish to call anyone out and i believe the staff took care of it anyway basically said trans folk shouldn't be allowed to be trans. Then another user agreed with them that bothered me however other members were quick to disagree with them.

 

[VoidCat]

Imma tag @JDMS. @Shadow Wolf. @Saint Frankenstein. @Snow White. @Estro Felino Because these folk are trans(I think snow White is but I'm not sure they may just be gender fluid and not like the label trans)

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Ive always appreciated how I'm never alone in the subject here, there's more supporters than haters and the rules prohibit methods if bullying and harassment like intentionally misgendering people.
The issue is more when some wanker comes along and forgets common decency amd start asking inappropriate things that you're not supposed to ask anyone, such as questions ablut genitals. But that's not against the site, just people who forgot what manners are.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Wasn't there a poll here?

Anyway, no. It can be annoying, but those threads can be ignored.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Wasn't there a poll here?

Yes. I removed it on further thought because there's no way to check whether only trans members have voted on it without making votes public, and I felt that could put voters on the spot.