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3 months agoA move that has been months in the making but only now is getting announced? Has it been announced previously and I missed it or something? I get the motivation for the move, but this feels like the kind of decision that the users of the 196 should have gotten more of a chance to at least give feedback on what other instance 196 should be migrating to.
I think the point of bringing up trans men is that sometimes people say that calling cis people eggs is harmless because you’re at worst making someone in the supermajority briefly uncomfortable, and potentially helping someone who’s trans figure themselves out. The point of bringing up trans men in this image is to point out that this argument misses how this attitude still ends up hurting trans people.
Even if I’m right about the intent though, I agree it doesn’t come through that well, and I’m still feeling like this guess is a stab in the dark.