Thank you 🫡

amab: assigned mysterious at birth

How dare you suggest men on the Internet would not be extremely and incredibly normal

I think this is entirely true, if pretty sad. Cisgender women I have been in online gaming communities with nearly always end up harassed at some point.

This is true for trans women too, but for different reasons.

Alright ya just signed up to be ‘force’ femmed

Would it be worth trying to recruit from more AFAB-dominated communities, like Tumblr or something?

Conèche, we need diversity of perspective.

This is the weird reality of the internet. I've met far, far more trans men in real life than trans women but online it's the complete opposite. I have no idea why.

Pretty sure there are like 4 total AFAB people on this site

I feel like for whatver reason places like Reddit, and then by extension offshoots like Hexbear, skew overwhelming AMAB, both cis and trans.

They'll probably pull the "look, there can't be that many, so that proves they're lying" bullshit.

You can't win with liberal transphobes

supernatural?

This is driven primarily by the source of the userbase here being reddit exiles. We have a low number of transmen because reddit has a low number of transmen.

I think also to a lesser extent transmen are often less radicalised than transwomen due to the focus of right wing attacks being far larger(quantity) against the latter.

This is an opt-in poll and lots of cis women probably opted not to self-identify, as someone else pointed out

HARDEN YOUR HEART O QIN HUANGDI

INCREASE YOUR ATTACKS SO CRUEL

SEND THEM ALL TO LIVE WITH ME

IN AN ENBY SAPPHIC POLYCULE

[CROWD GOES WILD]

yeah, theres probably somewhere around 5-15 (and maybe very optimistically, 40-50 per week) daily active cis women based on the numbers here. def an issue that needs to be fixed, along with finding some transmascs. But this is also a public poll and a good number of people are less likely to answer things publicly, so the actual rates are somewhat skewed

to be frank i wouldnt be surprised if we had almost all the cis women on lemmy here, lol. a lot of the other instances do their damndest to run them off (re: even with alleged anti-misogyny rules, they get harassed a ton). i think we need to find a posting vanguard of cis women and trans mascs that lead the charge like how we've done with transfems. over time, by focusing on pronoun tech and building trans specific areas of the site, the trans pop has skyrocketed. just gotta find good ways to flesh that out for other groups. i recall @[email protected] i think suggesting identifier emojis for poc people, and i figure just finding some trans mascs and putting them in charge of some communities will also go a long way to building up the trans masc pop. for cis women, im not so sure how to attract more, maybe we can analyze reddit womens communities and see what theyre interested in talking about and setting up specific spots of hexbear for those interests.

Might just be they're quiet. The internet isn't kind to them. If we weren't so openly accepting of trans people I assume we would have a lot of trans women also being quiet. Being a woman on the internet kind of trains you to not let people know your gender if you don't want to be chased out of a place.

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Of course I know xem, xe's me