The whole unshadowbanning of the transmisogyny tag makes me think about the context in which it happened and also the past when the tgirl tag was unbanned. The tgirl tag was one of many tags that were banned as a part of tumblrs anti-SW policies. A stink was raised about this and a push was made to get it unbanned among other tags. And what happened was every tag advocated for EXCEPT tgirl was unbanned after being addressed by staff even though staff lied at the time that they were "working WEALLY HAWD to unban it" like it was some sort of bug. It continues to stay banned for YEARS until Tumblr's anti-transfem moderation get too out of hand and impossible to ignore so the unban it as a way to try and appease us without doing anything meaningful.
Transmisogyny was shadow banned way back along with a lot of other tags around racism and other socially progressive tags around the ferguson protests as a part of a mass silencing campaign. Since then transfems have been pressing staff on this. Longer even than the Tgirl situation. And just this month when Tumblr thought they could get away with dropping the T from their corporate celebration of pride month, after retroactively adding the trans aspect to the progress flag as a bandaid failed to remove the heat suddenly look at that the transmisogyny tag suddenly comes up in searches and is followable again.
This still isn't going to do anything for them. It's not going to make all of the transfems on this site magically forget how transmisoginistic Tumblr's moderation policy is. But it does give reason as to why even the most petty and minor aspects of tumblrs transmisogyny baked into the coding goes unfixed even though it could be done overnight to garner progressive points. It's because they view fixing those problems as a get out of jail free card that needs to be held onto like a resource. As a treat to throw in one direction to distract the barking trannies while they make their escape.
So anyways what are y'all's bets on the next transmisoginistic moderation policy that will get amended as an attempt to distract us when Tumblr inevitably shits the bed in a way that's impossible to ignore again.
