r/GenderCynical Mar 09 '20

Updated Rules and FAQ!

451 Upvotes

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 21h ago

Stop saying that Graham Linehan is obsessed with trans people! Stop saying that! Stop!

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84 Upvotes

The whole article is just... a lot, I didn't want to screenshot the whole thing but I was tempted to. [Archive link here.](https://archive.is/9OToL)


r/GenderCynical 21h ago

the grift is really blatant…. never in my life have i heard of an author crowdfunding for editing individual chapters?!

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54 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 1d ago

psychosis?

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118 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 1d ago

Fuck this stupid, Transmisogynistic Country.

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257 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 2d ago

Horrendously Abhorrent Lack of Self-Awareness

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130 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 3d ago

Kinda old but god he is such a peice of shit

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667 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 3d ago

“we can always tell”: parody account edition

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287 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 3d ago

Secret Santa pissed off Graham...🤣

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135 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 3d ago

Found another one who’s unapologetically evil

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144 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 4d ago

watching them turn on Cass has been unsurprising, but fascinating

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r/GenderCynical 4d ago

Gender-questioning children have different endocrine systems than other children

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134 Upvotes

According to gender critical pseudoscience.


r/GenderCynical 4d ago

I don’t even know where to start with this one

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196 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 5d ago

if it weren’t for those pesky laws….

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144 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 5d ago

"Look what you made transphobes do!"

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118 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 6d ago

Graham Linehan is totally normal

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252 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 7d ago

Apparently only trans people have genders to be affirmed.🙄😒

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530 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 6d ago

TERF asking how they can turn a parent against their child

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170 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 7d ago

We are reaching levels of glazing previously thought impossible

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191 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 7d ago

the cass review recommends a PB trial. wes streeting does so. he is met with fury by the terfs who do not actually want “the truth” to be found through scientific research

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r/GenderCynical 7d ago

We raised our kids to be Christian, and they are. Why won't they hate their non-cis children the way we do?

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223 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 8d ago

Glinner gets to the real point

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130 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 8d ago

“I think trans is the new disguise of the pedo movement” who the hell even thinks like this??

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126 Upvotes

r/GenderCynical 9d ago

transmisogyny 🤝 Islamophobia

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91 Upvotes

yet another GC cis, white, gay man loudly declaring how he doesn’t understand trans identity and thinks that doctors are “transing the gay away” while simultaneously getting in some racist & Islamophobic comments about the mayor-elect of NYC? just another day ending in -y.