I love you transfems who realize they are still gay men

I love you transfems who still can't quite figure out their sexuality

I love you transfems with contradicting and confusing sexualities

I love you transfems with ever-changing sexualities

I love you transfems who are aromantic and aren't attracted to anyone

I love you transfems who don't care about romance

I love you transfems who love other transfems & trans women

I love you transfems who love transmascs & trans men

I love you transfems who are gaybian or sapphilean

I love you transfems who are sapphic

okay so tme people will get mad at me for not being sexually available to them and then when i go to transfems they find me incredibly weird for me to not want them to be outwardly sexual towards me

Well here's a piece of advice for you: Fucking Don't. Let us trans women have one thing for once in your lives you Transmisogynistic Fucks. And especially don't do it if transfemininity is the only reasonable interpretation of the text when analyzing from a trans lens, which is the case a solid 80-90% of the time.

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Dear Staff,

I appreciate that staff has reinstated some accounts that were banned in the last wave and I think the current "goal of responding to mistaken suspension appeals within 24 hours" is a good step in moving forward.

However, today I was made aware of the banning of a blog which criticized staff's well recorded actions against trans bloggers only hours after staff's apology went out. See here: https://www.tumblr.com/turbro/814174690287484929/this-blog-being-deleted-by-staff-less-than-3-hours?

The fact that this occurred indicates to me that knowledge about the issue is still being suppressed by punishing bloggers who draw attention to it, and implies that staff may not be planning to follow through on its promises to the LGBTQ+ community.

With this in mind, by the beginning of June (pride month) I would like to hear a plan for staff to:

1) Address the transphobia in their ranks by identifying which moderators, procedures and/or site features are causing transwomen and their posts to be disproportionately surveilled and banned,

2) Make both the banning and appeals processes more rigorous and transparent in general and when it comes to transwomen- especially transwomen of color- in particular,

When this plan is laid out, I want to see monthly updates detailing how and when each step of the plan is implemented.

Apologies are not sufficient redress for the material harm done to people caught in ban waves like the most recent one. People rely on social media like Tumblr as part of their social networks, for mutual aid, and even for their careers. As @husbanddaughter said before they were banned, "the normal number of people to have their accounts removed from your platform, without being given any warning or an opportunity after the fact to request any kind of appeal, based solely off of the false reports being made by open and proud bigots and serial harassers, is none…it certainly shouldn't be happening almost exclusively to an extremely vulnerable minority demographic."

I hope that Tumblr is willing to take these steps to become a site which is safe for trans people.

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Steps for anyone who hasn't sent feedback to staff before:

Go to this link: https://help.tumblr.com/

Click the light blue "Contact Support" button in the top right corner

From the Category drop-down, select "Feedback"

Write your message in the text box below (or copy and paste the letter above)

Complete the reCAPTCHA and click "Next" at the bottom of the screen

Next a "Does any of this help?" page will come up. Click the light blue "No, send my thing" button.