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Look, there's no reason to disbelieve here. If they claim to be trans, and they try to have trans-friendly policies, and keep talking about trans issues, why go this route?
Is your greater point that they're pretending to be mostly trans as a way to use their trans-identity as a shield for criticism? If so, criticize that when they do it. The counter-argument to "you can't criticize me because I'm trans" shouldn't be "you're not trans", it should be "being trans is not a defense". Ya follow?
And if the argument is that hexbear want to appear more trans in order to "virtual signal", then I'd say there's plenty to criticize about the way they run their instance, we don't need to try and deny anything good they do.
Thank you for this. I find it really frustrating seeing open transphobia go unmoderated (comments calling out the transphobia get removed instead) because it's directed at a 'safe' target on the instance.
Transphobia is still transphobia even if it's your political enemies.
Everyone just pretending it's not hex ear we're talking about
HB tend to be vary campist and do tend to rely on bad faith and hypocrisy a lot, but I don't have them as act as direct liars.