A post by Walks-the-Ages, that was just removed by iNaturalist staff from the thread about their failure to moderate bigotry for "being inapporpiate"
The two posts purposefully misgendering me, on the other hand, are still up, and the restrictions the staff have put on the thread to punish the trans and ally users for speaking up is now literally preventing the person who misgendered me from editing her posts to fix them.
Check my pinned post for more information on the situation, and ways you can help out!
[quote="astra_the_dragon, post:71, topic:42122"]
I agree with yalls core ideals, but as an individual I believe that it is impossible to force someone to change. you can explain, you can beg, you can scream, but you cannot forcibly make anyone have a belief or do something… short of actual force.
***And once again. I have to reinterate what Nonbinary-Naturalist cannot, because it was banned for the mods for refusing to back down when it was the target of transphobia:***
** Literally no one here is expecting you to hold Sedgequeen hostage and force her to use the right pronouns for someone who's already told her its pronouns and why its important to it to not be misgendered.**
This is not about changing someones mind about being transphobic.
this is about Staff's week long, drawn-out refusal to remove 2 single transphobic posts from the LGBTQIA thread , while removing dozens of other posts for far less egregious violations of TOS
At this point, I have allready been directing queer and ally Inaturalist users to these two threads so they can see for themselves Staff's reaction in real time, and they are all equally horrified.
Few people are willing to put themselves at risk by responding, since staff have shown from day one of this staff-made debacle that they are not on the side of marginalized groups.
So yeah. It's June first. It's Pride Month, I am joining if not starting a boycott of Inaturalist for Pride Month, either for the duration, or until Nonbinary-Naturalist is unbanned, a formal apology is made, paid staff undergo actual training for LGBTQIA issuers, and the 2 posts are removed which is what the original request was no matter how much you want to try to twist it into something outrageous and malicious.
I've already been spreading the word to queer and ally users about exactly what's gone down here, and plenty have already seen for themselves .
So anyways, for anyone who's unaware, Nonbinary-Naturalist was officially banned by staff for a full week for refusing to back down on the simple fact that staff need to remove the 2 posts from this thread.
@Sedgequeen I see that you are typing. Please remove your posts from this thread, for the -- oh and live i see that because of slow mode you can't even do that for the technicalities. Thank you for trying!
If you would to see and practice with neopronouns, as well as understand Nonbinary-Naturalist's
[quote="astra_the_dragon, post:66, topic:42122"]
fascists won’t differentiate between a transmisc lesbian and an it/its person who insists everyone must be perfect all the time.
Astra, it really is amazing how you are twisting literally every single thing that Nonbinary-Naturalsit has said now that it cant be here to defend itself. This is absolutely foul behavior, and I really hope you think deeply about what exactly you're doing here. No one is expectiong "everyone to be perfect all the time" and the fact you've all removed its posts so you (general you) can twists its words this way is extremely telling.
You (staff) were asked to remove 2 transphobic posts, and for whatever reason, you (astra) have decided that this is a personal attack on yourself as an unpaid trans moderator and I really, really think you need to step back from this because you are being exactly the thing you are apparently fighting against, saying that standing up for yourself is the same as being an aggressive attacker, saying that calling someone a transphobe for being blatantly transphobic in the queer-dedicated thread is "name calling", etc etc.
[quote="astra_the_dragon, post:71, topic:42122"]
the mod team here are not DeSantis’s little cronies come to take you to jail
And yet, once again alll the posts are being removed except for the 2 requested by multiple queer users,
and **you haven't even made it public that you banned Nonbinary-Naturalist from the forums yet**, and instead you're acting like nothing's been done so people will assume the lack of response from nonbinary-naturalist is that it has given up and this can all be swept under the rug.
I await this post getting removed for "inapproriateness"
Removing Nonbinary-Naturalists' posts so you can lie about what it said and paint it as an unreasonable perfectionist is very telling.
