#prestrogen

So tumblr staff banned a trans woman for posting selfies of her transition (fully clothed btw), then obliterated every trace of her existence on this hell site (I can’t find my reblogs from her posts and nobody can, everything regarding her was purged from tumblr), kept her ban for fucking life on tumblr, threatened to call the fbi on her bc of a death threat involving hammering a car until it explodes (ffs dude) and now the tumblr ceo posted a lengthy text about his “values and beliefs”… and yet a trans woman is still banned for life for just posting her existence in this site.

But it gets better worse! Now I can’t fucking reblog the post about the CEO’s values and beliefs with the additional comment reblog I saw bc tumblr just won’t let me! An error keeps showing whenever I try to do it.

So yeah, you all gonna have it in picture form (text of image in alt)

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I imagine you may be getting more than a few of these in the near future, but despite the previous decision made by your office regarding gender identity discrimination in moderation on Tumblr their CEO has spent a large portion of his night actively ranting about a trans woman that was banned, which seems immediately discriminatory considering this is not normal process for banned accounts on Tumblr (which he even acknowledged, saying company policy in these matters is normally to stay quiet). Furthermore I am concerned about his admission that as of last year, Tumblr did indeed have a transphobic moderator contracted who was also "selling moderation". Despite his claim of having spoken about this before, I had never heard or seen this anywhere on the site (nor had anyone else). Additionally, Matt gave no exact information on the date, but it seems to me that there is every chance this happened after the 180 days given to Tumblr for compliance, and I'm certainly confused as to how it happened if they had actually taken the measures in training and oversight that was asked of them. Beyond that, at least one former employee has noted that trans members of staff may be unfairly targeted for firing, and do not feel safe voicing concerns about transphobia and other possible discriminatory practices. Given that the CEOs behavior this evening involved banning other accounts critical of his decision and going so far as to private message individual users on the platform, I at minimum do not feel comfortable raising any discriminatory issue with Tumblr or Automattic staff given the possible repercussions, and his recent public statements regarding race and gender only suggest this issue will continue to worsen without intervention.

I thank you for your time in reading and hope that someone, possibly, can protect marginalized Tumblr users, because the one clear statement their CEO has made tonight is that he has no plans to, and I would argue he's actually made it less so.