Y’all, we have a problem.
These are some of the results of a survey done on our community concerning gender identity:
1.08% Binary Trans men (4).
1.08% Transmasculine people (4).
1.35% Cis women (5).
That’s right, there are more CIS WOMEN on a TRANS community than binary trans men or transmasculine people alone.
We have a problem.
This isn’t just a Blahaj problem. Another queer instance did a similar survey and found only 3% of their users were trans and use he/him pronouns.
Not having enough transmasc voices is going to be detrimental to our community. There are plenty of transmasc people on the internet. The problem is with Lemmy.
So what are we gonna do about it?
Right…I’m still struggling to figure out how to make a post that will attract transmascs and explain Lemmy in a comprehensible way. I know that there are a lot of transmascs on Tumblr but I don’t often hang around in those circles on there and don’t use Tumblr that often. The main place that I used to hang out in transmasc circles was on Reddit. I still haven’t gotten around to deleting my reddit account, and I feel guilty for making a post on there but I might could make one last one…if anybody wants to help out in helping me formulate an effective post to put on there that would be greatly appreciated. We could potentially get a fair amount of new people if done properly.
I definitely think that it got leaked to all for some people, but it does sound like there are a lot of allies that lurk on here. Anyhow, it did give a good estimate of the demographics of trans and nonbinary people if you ignore the cis aspect of the survey.
I think my bf has a tumblr account so maybe I could ask him if he’d like to help! :3 but he also has bad memories from that platform so maybe he wont
Yeah I guess people that r already in a transmasc community might not feel like going to another >v< but I think some would like to join if u mention we need to make the difference between transfems and transmascs more balanced and give them clear enough instructions on how to join, like recommending them Blahaj while telling them they can join through other servers and where to find those! idk how to help with that rn but I’d love to :>
and yeah agreed, it was an interesting survey! :3
edit: oh and by “make posts that will attract them” I also meant posts in this community that would be useful/interesting/etc for transmascs
That would be a huge help to do that. Tumblr is a good place to do some recruiting right now because a.) there are a lot of terfs and transphobia and it isn’t hard to find and b.) I’ve heard that anything mentioning trans people gets flagged as NSFW and is repressed in the algorithm. It would be a good appeal for people to know that it’s a moderated community and we have a no tolerance policy for transphobia and TERF dog whistles.
Mentioning mobile third party readers would be a big appeal too since many Tumblr users use the app on their phone.
Damn thats crazy o.O wouldn’t have expected that from a big social media platform today but tbf thats mainly cuz my bf told me it had poor to none moderation so I imagined it being mostly anarchy x3
Btw he said that being amab he feels hesitant to make that post cuz he doesnt know how people will react and says theres some pretty unchill people there :< (he’s told me before about people being major assholes to him for using the trans label being a catboy)