Presentation and gender identity does not need to match up! And some people struggle to present in certain ways. The safest bet is always to respect what you are told
There's a lemmy (lemmy.blahaj.zone), a piefed (piefed.blahaj.zone), a sharkey (blahaj.zone), a peertube (tube.blahaj.zone), a pixelfed (pix.blahaj.zone), and finally a matrix server (ttps://chat.blahaj.zone/c/genderverse/)
I've had the same thing happen in Norway :(
Didn't feel great, and I bet it feels worse over there given you know... all the stuff. I wish all the queers in the US the best 🫂
Yeah no, this would not work well. Minorities often experience being downvoted in great number and out-ratioed by those that have no understanding of what they go through (your regular lemmy user). It would just result in the ultimate echo chamber where largely only liberal white cishets have anything to say. At least as things are now queers can have a queer instance and feel safe there, even if things are not ideal.
People tend to ask in transmasc/transfem/trans, so these other comms don't get much attention. The matrix is pretty good for asking questions in I find.
Presentation and gender identity does not need to match up! And some people struggle to present in certain ways. The safest bet is always to respect what you are told