/c/twochromosomes explains its name with the following:

The name XX was chosen just because it illustrates the essence of this subreddit and its target Redditors–girly and geeky, and subtly awesome.

Connecting girliness with a genotype and bragging about being cisgender is not my idea of what the solarpunk movement stands for. This is gender essentialism and subtle transphobia. And the beginning of the community and of SLRPNK is the perfect time to be getting rid of transphobic names.

Admins, if you are reading this, please remove this transphobic community.

Everyone else, do you know how I can get in touch with the SLRPNK admins?

  • HardlightCereal@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    People were messaging the mods of that subreddit a few days in about the transphobic name, and they made a stickied post saying they weren’t going to change it a month after it was created. Trans issues have been at the forefront of consideration of that name from the very beginning. And in like fashion, other people have commented on /c/twoxchromosomes’ inauguration post with the transphobia issue, and received no response from the mods. I’ve created a post on the community calling for action from the moderators and pointing out the flaws, but I’m not crossing my fingers here. I’d rather that post work, but if it doesn’t, we have this one