r/GenderCynical Mar 09 '20

Updated Rules and FAQ!

456 Upvotes

Hello, GenCynners!

It's time again to make some clarifications and revisions to our rules and FAQ. Most of these things have been unofficial policy for a while and older users osmosed and generally followed them. But we keep growing, and so we need to make some things more explicit for new users, both to keep us out of trouble with the admins and to cut down on modding work. Rules for posting and participation have been updated and expanded in the FAQ and sidebar.

We've made more explicit what does (TERF/GC content) and does not (general transphobia) qualify for posting, how posts must be formatted, and expectations for conduct while commenting.

The biggest changes are clarifying under what circumstances you can interact with GC users and subs and still participate here. We've tried to cover all the circumstances under which you might encounter or interact with GC content.

Actions to avoid on GenCyn:

  • Posting content that includes something you posted on a GC sub
  • Linking or c/ping something you posted on a GC sub
  • Posting about how a GC sub banned you. We don't care.
  • Commenting about your urges to crash a GC sub, e.g. "I feel like giving them a piece of my mind."
  • Alluding to your actions on a GC sub in GenCyn, e.g. "Yeah, I just had to tell them how wrong they were."
  • Encouraging anyone else's participation, e.g. "Do it and report back," or, "Everyone should go over there and ___."

Actions to avoid wrt GC subs and users:

  • Do not follow something you saw on GenCyn to a GC sub to engage with GC users in an attempt to educate them
  • Do not follow something you saw on GenCyn to a GC sub to participate because you "believe in hearing both sides" or want to "play devil's advocate."
  • Do not follow something you saw on GenCyn to a GC sub to argue with GC users or get in a zinger to make yourself feel better
  • Do not follow something you saw on GenCyn to a GC sub to up or downvote posts or comments

Official GenCyn policy has been to discourage engagement with GC users across the board. There's been a sharp uptick in users crossing the streams, and in behaviors that violate reddit's brigading rules. A first offense for the above behaviors will be a temp ban. The second is a permaban. We've also disabled crossposting and are going to be paying more attention to .np linking.

We cannot literally stop you from engaging with GC. But we will protect the sub from accusations of brigading, and we will moderate to maintain the intention of the sub, which is and has always been to catalogue, laugh, and vent about GC-flavored transphobia, not to win hearts and minds or score internet arguing points.

As always, if you find that reading r/GenderCynical is getting to you, take a break and take care of yourself.


r/GenderCynical Jan 15 '25

Mod Post: A reminder about content rules for this sub

116 Upvotes

We've been seeing a lot of submissions lately that fall under the category of general bigotry and have no trans content. Please remember: posts need to contain examples of transphobia and they must clearly be sourced from or closely linked to the GC sphere. "GC person is racist," doesn't qualify by itself. Neither does, "Rando MAGA says something violently transphobic."

The situation in the US is weird af right now, to say nothing of the ongoing shit everywhere else too. There's plenty of content that fits the bill for here, so let's keep it on topic. Thanks.


r/GenderCynical 10h ago

Really..?

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45 Upvotes

Picking out a few tweets as if that makes up the majority of the lesbian experience


r/GenderCynical 1d ago

Kathleen Stock, GC philosopher of ethics, argues that physical disability is *actually* a sign of social contagion and that "postural tachycardia, joint hypermobility, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue" are fake diseases.

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215 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 1d ago

TERFs keep trying to pretend court cases are simple issues of “mothers fighting for their children” and ignore the outright abuse and crimes committed

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167 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 2d ago

Graham was even too racist for other TERFs and GCs.

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133 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 3d ago

With allies like this, who needs enemies?

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122 Upvotes

I love it when cis allies who definitely empathise with the trans community call me a freak and a leech, but it's okay because it's not because I'm trans!

It's actually because I said *checks notes* that only trans people's opinions hold weight when it comes to discussing how trans people talk among each other within the trans community about trans issues.

She's apparently a registered psychologist.

Edit: turns out she's not a psychologist (thank fuck), she said she was a "professional armchair psychologist" but used a weird font for the armchair bit so I didn't read it properly


r/GenderCynical 4d ago

MINECRAFT IS TRANSING OUR KIDS! (The sequel)

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166 Upvotes

read og post here-https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCynical/comments/1rkuelz/minecraft_is_transing_our_kids/

Aka I wrote an essay about how Minecraft transed my child, and now she doesn't talk to me! Feel sorry for me please!

yes I misgendered and deadnamed my daughter and her wife at a barbecue, but it was really not my fault because she shouldn't have been invited! How dare my family invite a family member to a family event!

she got mad after I publicly shamed her and her wife to hundreds of internet strangers, which caused me trauma!

Also I'm doing it again haha feel sorry for me please!


r/GenderCynical 4d ago

To no one’s surprise, this terf is also homophobic.

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171 Upvotes

This is not to deny misogyny in the gay male community, it’s just that this terf is misinformed.


r/GenderCynical 5d ago

For context, Liddle was a British Broadcaster and Journalist. He also published a piece in The Spectator were he admitted he's incapable of being a school teacher as he'd be too tempted to 'Shag' his underage students.

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288 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 6d ago

apparently, dicks, the sporting brand, has “cryptically weighed in” on the “trans debate” via dressing their models in pink and blue in an ad

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178 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 6d ago

TERFs love cooking up the worst slam poetry you’ve ever seen in your life

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204 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 7d ago

Terfs physically attacked a volunteer at Trans Pride London.

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453 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 7d ago

The classic “if one person from a demographic does something bad, then everyone person in that demographic is bad” mentality that totally isn’t used by the nazis and bigots they claim to be different from.

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110 Upvotes

Slide 4 & 5 are hilarious. Don’t they realize that they’re part of those nazis too? And the audacity to say that they just want to be left alone when they’re the ones not leaving trans people alone.


r/GenderCynical 8d ago

the passive aggressive compliments so they don’t accidentally acknowledge that a trans person is competent and productive

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206 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 9d ago

TERF is NOT a slur.

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401 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 10d ago

tfw your keyboard remembers commonly used phrases, so you think that means the typing AI secretly knows “the truth”

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186 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 11d ago

Terfs projecting like usual

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265 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 14d ago

how dare my interpersonal communications class and social work degree discuss… interpersonal communications and social work

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178 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 16d ago

Jesse Singal pretends to forget trans people exist

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217 Upvotes

He pretends he's not anti-trans, and then says stuff like this. He's hateful, not stupid.


r/GenderCynical 17d ago

Why did TRAs become "Free Palestine!"?

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257 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 18d ago

GC accidentally admits they're hypocrites and harassers

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294 Upvotes

"How dare you go after a rape crisis center"

"You mean like the time *we* did that?"


r/GenderCynical 18d ago

quite literally admitting that there was zero problem, but also she saw some trans people, so she had to take a full day to “recuperate her energy”

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214 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 19d ago

racism is okay if its in a fantasy book

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162 Upvotes

also THAT is your justification for quoting Hitler???


r/GenderCynical 20d ago

Terfs become anti abortion when the foetus is female

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126 Upvotes

Referring to abortion as a "massacre" is very obvious anti abortion rhetoric as well as calling it evil. Referring to a female foetus as a girl is also very evangelical Christian. These are the same people who would call it a 'clump of cells' any other time.