Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by azeirah on Thursday January 23, 2025 @07:08PM (#42809325)

As a little bit of context, a lot of trans people (rightfully) view HN as a (white)-male dominated place, and feel misunderstood and misheard by the people here. A common defense tactic is to become _more_ sexually overt and grotesque than they actually are in reality.

A lot of the other thirstposting is, from my experience, very much genuine and heartfelt.

The trans community is often quite open.

I'm personally transgender, monogamous and mostly lesbian, so I'm a bit of a "boring" outlier when it comes to the poly & kink communities. But I spend a LOT of time in trans spaces. Online and offline. Professionally and casually. Younger and older. Political and friendly.

Etc

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by xrd on Thursday January 23, 2025 @07:37PM (#42809472)

I just love this, thanks. A good reminder.

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by azeirah on Friday January 24, 2025 @10:33AM (#42814078)

Yep. That's why I'm openly talking about moderation and why I'm very much in favor of an NSFW filter.

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by jncfhnb on Friday January 24, 2025 @10:34AM (#42814079)

Perverted is just some other person being judgmental.

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by fennecbutt on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @08:02PM (#42860193)

That line is shared with the one of "none of your business"

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by defrost on Friday January 24, 2025 @02:13AM (#42811165)

> And I (rightfully) view congregations of transgender women mostly as a (white)-male dominated place.

You need to get out in the world more, that's a very limited locale specific PoV.

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by moi2388 on Friday January 24, 2025 @04:29PM (#42817096)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336597435/figure/fi...

68% seems 'mostly'.

As does this map: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/trans-pop...

/ˈməʊs(t)li/ adverb as regards the greater part or number.

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by defrost on Friday January 24, 2025 @05:20PM (#42817480)

You need to get out in the world more and experience reality outside of the US and US centric 'world' maps.

The "worldpopulationreview" data has shortcomings. An obvious (for any with a background in data collection) reporting bias for one ..

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by defrost on Saturday January 25, 2025 @06:38PM (#42826114)

With no response I'll assume you've worked out for yourself why your graphs and statistics are bad data.

If not, I'm happy to walk you through some of it - it'd impress more if you can come back with a global average figure for transgenderism and some thoughts on why (for example) Indonesia has such a large population and yet such low official figures (43K IIRC rather than >> 3 million).

Forget the transgender part and think of this as a data exercise.

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by gemerald on Friday January 24, 2025 @03:50AM (#42811556)

I would assume t4t.org is also a White male dominated space, like the trans community as a whole. White males stay dominating.

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by jbirer on Friday January 24, 2025 @08:17AM (#42812753)

Nothing wrong with NSFW content per se, but you cannot justify potentially exposing children to pornographic content as a "coping mechanism", it wouldn't be accepted by any court for sure.

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by azeirah on Friday January 24, 2025 @10:33AM (#42814070)

I completely agree.

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by fennecbutt on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @08:04PM (#42860203)

Idt it's defensive, at least not for my trans friends. I'm a gay dude and I think it's just that the queer community is a lot more open about that stuff in general, which contrasts greatly with straight people, especially Americans.

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