Please stop defederating from general purpose news services, just because they sometimes do a transphobia.

I'm trans, and I'm telling you its worse for me to cut off my news sources than to read those news sources misgender people or whatever.

Seriously, come the fuck on, we just talked about this. Stop making the fediverse into some arcane and impenetrable little clique powered by unwritten rules and endless purity tests.

This is about #bbc, among others

@jenniferplusplus They are not general purpose anything, they were changed from an impartial national broadcaster to a virtual propaganda arm of the Tories and TERF culturewar.

Trans people's right to human rights is not and has never been a valid subject for debate by legitimate media.

Other than that, I have not seen anyone calling for them to be defederated.

Here's a recent example..."

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/04/bbc-pride-news-staff-protests/

BBC reissues ‘out of touch’ guidance advising news staff not to attend ‘overt’ Pride protests

A BBC employee has told PinkNews the guidance on staff attending Pride events 'fails' LGBTQ+ people and allies who work for the broadcaster.

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