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it's not an accident or a mistake. I was being way too charitable. they banned me because I said "stop banning trans people" and then when I tried to appeal suddenly I get a ton of emails telling me that the (trans focused) harassment blogs I reported don't violate tumblrs TOS. tumblr is actively defending anti-trans harassment and hate speech blogs.

this is not them simply not allowing people to say "bad things about communities" as they allow blogs like this dedicated entirely and solely to harassing trans people and respond with the excuse, "we don't agree with them but it's not against tos" when they are reported.

I reported one of their communities and got this response;

and after sending them the following evidence of this communities behavior with grooming minors, posting violent content, and harassing people, my second account was mysteriously also banned.

(there's more evidence of stuff like this here, by the way. they're counting on the fact that the trans community tries to ignore them to get away with grooming and conversion therapy.)

they aren't simply neutral to this. they see the harassment and they see the grooming. they see these harassment communities and what they say and choose not to ban them.

someone in the moderation team is absolutely in on this. they have chosen to side with the individuals grooming and harassing trans people and promoting dangerous conversion therapy tactics.

do not let them get away with this. don't forget about this and don't let it die down. demand everyone on moderation be fired and demand them to actually act on their terms of service and ban all terf groomers and terf grooming communities.