/c/twochromosomes explains its name with the following:
The name XX was chosen just because it illustrates the essence of this subreddit and its target Redditors–girly and geeky, and subtly awesome.
Connecting girliness with a genotype and bragging about being cisgender is not my idea of what the solarpunk movement stands for. This is gender essentialism and subtle transphobia. And the beginning of the community and of SLRPNK is the perfect time to be getting rid of transphobic names.
Admins, if you are reading this, please remove this transphobic community.
Everyone else, do you know how I can get in touch with the SLRPNK admins?
I agree that the name is not without issues, but you can not undo history.
People coming from Reddit are searching for communities with the same name, and they are usually not explicitly looking for a TERF community when doing so. Thus if they find our, explicitly not TERF friendly community under this name, it is better than some actual TERF name-squatting it and using it for TERF propaganda.
I am willing to change my mind on this, but for now I don’t think the community name alone warrants administrative action as long as the community is and remains explicitly not transphobic.
I think the best course of action here is that the community should be locked, and all posts should be removed save a redirect to /c/women and/or a list of other feminist communities on the fediverse. That will solve the continuity issue of people coming here from reddit, and it’ll solve the transphobia issue. I’ve made a post on /c/twoxchromosomes calling for this solution, but I’m not expecting a response as others have been asking the mods to do something about the gender essentialism since the subslrpnk was created. These new mods have directly cited the original justification that having two X chromosomes is “girly” and “subtly awesome”. That’s direct gender essentialism. I don’t think having people who claim to be trans inclusive, but stonewall trans people’s concerns is appropriate. I don’t think it aligns with our code of conduct. If the 2xc mods aren’t willing to listen to trans people’s concerns, then custodianship of the community should be given to someone who will.
