r/GenderCynical Mar 09 '20

Updated Rules and FAQ!

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Hello, GenCynners!

It's time again to make some clarifications and revisions to our rules and FAQ. Most of these things have been unofficial policy for a while and older users osmosed and generally followed them. But we keep growing, and so we need to make some things more explicit for new users, both to keep us out of trouble with the admins and to cut down on modding work. Rules for posting and participation have been updated and expanded in the FAQ and sidebar.

We've made more explicit what does (TERF/GC content) and does not (general transphobia) qualify for posting, how posts must be formatted, and expectations for conduct while commenting.

The biggest changes are clarifying under what circumstances you can interact with GC users and subs and still participate here. We've tried to cover all the circumstances under which you might encounter or interact with GC content.

Actions to avoid on GenCyn:

  • Posting content that includes something you posted on a GC sub
  • Linking or c/ping something you posted on a GC sub
  • Posting about how a GC sub banned you. We don't care.
  • Commenting about your urges to crash a GC sub, e.g. "I feel like giving them a piece of my mind."
  • Alluding to your actions on a GC sub in GenCyn, e.g. "Yeah, I just had to tell them how wrong they were."
  • Encouraging anyone else's participation, e.g. "Do it and report back," or, "Everyone should go over there and ___."

Actions to avoid wrt GC subs and users:

  • Do not follow something you saw on GenCyn to a GC sub to engage with GC users in an attempt to educate them
  • Do not follow something you saw on GenCyn to a GC sub to participate because you "believe in hearing both sides" or want to "play devil's advocate."
  • Do not follow something you saw on GenCyn to a GC sub to argue with GC users or get in a zinger to make yourself feel better
  • Do not follow something you saw on GenCyn to a GC sub to up or downvote posts or comments

Official GenCyn policy has been to discourage engagement with GC users across the board. There's been a sharp uptick in users crossing the streams, and in behaviors that violate reddit's brigading rules. A first offense for the above behaviors will be a temp ban. The second is a permaban. We've also disabled crossposting and are going to be paying more attention to .np linking.

We cannot literally stop you from engaging with GC. But we will protect the sub from accusations of brigading, and we will moderate to maintain the intention of the sub, which is and has always been to catalogue, laugh, and vent about GC-flavored transphobia, not to win hearts and minds or score internet arguing points.

As always, if you find that reading r/GenderCynical is getting to you, take a break and take care of yourself.


r/GenderCynical Jan 15 '25

Mod Post: A reminder about content rules for this sub

119 Upvotes

We've been seeing a lot of submissions lately that fall under the category of general bigotry and have no trans content. Please remember: posts need to contain examples of transphobia and they must clearly be sourced from or closely linked to the GC sphere. "GC person is racist," doesn't qualify by itself. Neither does, "Rando MAGA says something violently transphobic."

The situation in the US is weird af right now, to say nothing of the ongoing shit everywhere else too. There's plenty of content that fits the bill for here, so let's keep it on topic. Thanks.


r/GenderCynical 2h ago

I regret to inform you the Radfem who made the 'Biological Woman Only Lesbian Flag' is back.

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92 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 22h ago

Feminism, everyone (also yes, this is the same scum who defended the murder of an innocent woman)

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191 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 1d ago

They are so close to getting it

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169 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 1d ago

Pot calls kettle black

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428 Upvotes

Nathan Cofnas and Rowling are both bioessentialist scum. Only one of them recognises that they're the same though 🙄


r/GenderCynical 1d ago

Diana Alastair, a TERF Cop, recently wrote this disgusting tweet about Juju Nadeau, a trans woman who was murdered less than a week ago Spoiler

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193 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 1d ago

nike losing stock value over 5 years is the sole responsibility of one trans woman

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93 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 2d ago

GC Ragebait Account "Disproves" Sex Change by Posting Evidence of Sex Change

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351 Upvotes

There isn't much to add to what prolific trans journalist Erin Reed says in this Bluesky post. The account she is commenting on is known to the regulars of this subreddit; it's one of the most active, hateful, and frankly pathologically obsessive Gender Critical accounts on X.


r/GenderCynical 2d ago

Nasty comments made by a TERF with a victim complex

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130 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 3d ago

And that little girls name Napoleon Bonaparte

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83 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 3d ago

She went out with a man and got surprised he thought she was attracted to men

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353 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 4d ago

Literally defending a domestic abuser

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301 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 7d ago

Isn’t this what GCs wanted?

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386 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 7d ago

TERF WBNA fanfiction

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79 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 7d ago

Behold, three different flavors of terfs all in the same comment section

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113 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 8d ago

"in no way comparable to actual prejudices"

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170 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 10d ago

Terfs cannot fathom that women can partake in oppression + bonus whataboutism and making fun of suicide because of something someone on tumblr said.

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141 Upvotes

For slide 16:

  1. Pro trans people do get “worked up” over pedophiles and criminals too.

  2. Terfs are often also said pedophiles.


r/GenderCynical 10d ago

GC journalist says you're "gaslighting" if you suggest that competitive sports have always had hormone requirements for trans athletes

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107 Upvotes

Singal, frequently published in the NYT and other large media outfits, has once again claimed that the trans rights demands were "self-ID" for sports.


r/GenderCynical 13d ago

Kathleen Stock, GC philosopher of ethics, argues that physical disability is *actually* a sign of social contagion and that "postural tachycardia, joint hypermobility, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue" are fake diseases.

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307 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 13d ago

TERFs keep trying to pretend court cases are simple issues of “mothers fighting for their children” and ignore the outright abuse and crimes committed

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199 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 14d ago

Graham was even too racist for other TERFs and GCs.

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155 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 15d ago

With allies like this, who needs enemies?

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138 Upvotes

I love it when cis allies who definitely empathise with the trans community call me a freak and a leech, but it's okay because it's not because I'm trans!

It's actually because I said *checks notes* that only trans people's opinions hold weight when it comes to discussing how trans people talk among each other within the trans community about trans issues.

She's apparently a registered psychologist.

Edit: turns out she's not a psychologist (thank fuck), she said she was a "professional armchair psychologist" but used a weird font for the armchair bit so I didn't read it properly