There’s actually a lot of different opinions and schools of thought represented on here. There are definitely some contributions and contributors I don’t love and don’t personally find add much value, which I generally ignore because that’s not why I’m here. And I still think they should be allowed to express it because the censorship is so extreme elsewhere that I understand the inclination to not want to be as strict here. I’ve personally mostly moved beyond certain types of posts that I find more petty than anything. I’m more concerned about colonization of LGB spaces and resources than what people who identify as trans talk about in their own spaces.

Some things he mentions I think are out of context. He mentions that here Elliot (formerly Ellen Page) is “she.” He glosses over the extensive discussion here about the homophobia and lesbophobia Page is widely known to have received, and comparisons between Page’s coming out as lesbian vs as trans. How nothing about it looks like healthy self-actualization. These are important discussions to be had that really can’t happen anywhere else on the Internet or in the media. And he is not lesbian and doesn’t have the experience of having so little lesbian representation and having more fake lesbian representation. Likewise, he’s a gay man. He has AGB. He has gay bars IRL. He has places he can congregate with gay men. Yet even in liberal cities in the west, lesbians have NOTHING. Zero. Goose egg. It is damn hard to find other lesbians. And we are hounded constantly by outsiders. Also I know what he’s talking about with the cake case but he’s mischaracterizing both the issue and the perspective he’s trying to criticize.

Anyway, for me what characterizes this place is the abundant thoughtful, fresh, nuanced takes I find from a large group of longtime users who are all across the political spectrum and the globe. That’s why I come here.

If he doesn’t find value in this place, no point in trying to convince him otherwise, but his post and comments reflect he still has a lot of beliefs that would get him banned on the rest of Reddit and cancelled into oblivion. Godspeed, brother.