This was brought up in the mega but I’ve noticed this potential problem myself. While this comm has grown beyond it’s original purpose as a trans meme comm, I worry about the prevalence of news posts about current transphobia. At this moment it’s not as bad as I’ve seen in the past, but there are still 7 Erin in the Morning posts currently when sorting by active, most of which are about how we’re under attack and facing genocide. I think it’s important to be aware of these things and discuss them, but I have two main problems with this:

• Trans people (the demographic of this comm) already know about most of this and don’t need to be reminded about each specific case unless we have a need to and seek it out. The people who need to be made aware of this the most are cis comrades and allies.
• This is a meme community that has become a gathering place for many of us. While the rules currently allow other kinds of posts and I personally think they should stay that way, I think clogging up the comm with news especially of this type is antithetical to the environment I thought we wanted to create here. Plus we already have a news comm on this site that would reach the broader demographic that I pointed out these posts should really be directed at.

I’m offering this suggestion for an amendment to comm rule 10 (changes in bold):

While this is mostly a meme community, we allow most trans related posts as we grow the trans community on the fediverse excluding news posts

I could be off base here, but the comment complaining about this in the mega really resonated with me and also got quite a few upbears so I wanted to make this post and ask for feedback so please comment what you think whether you’re for, against, or neutral about this. Also please comment if you have different suggestions for wording the rule if you have any.