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See also this community's sister subs Feminism, Neurodivergence, Disability, and POC
Beehaw currently maintains an LGBTQ+ resource wiki, which is up to date as of July 10, 2023.
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Woah. So far, I've been super brazen about this whole reddit fiasco; I told myself that if this is how they want to go, then I wish them a painful downfall.
But seeing a community that played such a substantial role in my self-discovery close down forever... It's hitting me in a way I honestly couldn't have predicted. This subreddit, along with /r/egg_irl, forced me to confront things that I had pushed down since childhood.
This really feels like the end of an era, as silly as that may sound.
dang... rip to the subreddit that helped me find myself
For real. I remember browsing stuff on there and asktg when I started coming out almost a decade ago. Crazy to see a place like that close up shop
why are there so many trans subs?
There's a lot of things wrapped up in "trans"; lots of identities fall under trans as a term, but don't necessarily relate to one another. I'm a trans woman, while my experience relates in some ways to transmascs and to agender or enby folk, in many ways it does not. This kind of subdivision is, I think, less evident for the L or the G in LGBTQ+ because they're more specific things.
Along with that, Reddit is (was) one of those places where it was possible to build a supportive community of anonymous individuals, somewhere it's safe to be yourself without putting your real identity against that presentation. For a lot of us, it was the first place we were truly us, and it really sucks to see how it's being torn apart right now. A bigger concern especially now, while things are as batshit insane for trans kids as they are, is that these communities will now be harder to access even if they do stick around after the 30th - so where do the people who don't have the safety or freedom in their offline lives to express themselves and work through their identity go then?
In the million bajillion other trans spaces? Trans folk are some of the most protected identities online, you'll be fine.
why don't you go find one of those million other places to go stink up, troll
Nice. This and 196 were the friendliest shit post communities I had encountered on Reddit and it's tough saying goodbye. But I'm glad they're not gonna put up with the platform's shitty changes.
Btw maybe Beehaw needs a little gay shitpost community jfc~