A Reddit post describing a mother being removed from a support group for offending a trans-identified male is sparking outrage amongst feminists on social media as many women ask why a male was in the support group to begin with.
On August 22, Reddit user thats-so-raven- made a post on the r/MTF subreddit describing having had a woman removed from a support group because she was “transphobic.” The user, who has since been suspended from Reddit, stated he had been a participant in a trans-friendly motherhood support group and had pushed the center to bar a woman from attending anymore for suggesting motherhood was a female-exclusive experience.
“Last week one of the other moms (cis) said something extremely transphobic to me during our session. I won’t say it outright but it was along the lines of ‘you will not understand xyz’ because of not being cis,” u/thats-so-raven- wrote, continuing that he then challenged her on her comment during the session before complaining to the support group coordinator.
“Our coordinator agreed with my concerns and said that hostile behavior is not welcomed. She said that the transphobe would be banned from not only the support group but the center entirely,” the user wrote, concluding the post by noting the woman was from a “lower income and a disadvantaged background” but that he did not feel any guilt from having her removed from the support group.
“You cannot expect me to care for someone who doesn’t believe that I don’t deserve rights. And someone who thinks that I am less of a mother than she is.”
On r/MtF, a subreddit dedicated to trans-identified males, the majority of the comments expressed support for the user’s actions, with many praising the woman’s suspension from the support group.
“You shouldn’t feel guilty for having someone get banned for invalidating others feelings in a support group. Seems like the right thing to do in any support group,” one user commented, with another replying: “It’s amazing that someone can be a bigot to us then people treat them like the victim when we don’t lay down and take it.”
In the comment section, the original poster continued that he feared the other mothers in the support group may also be “secretly transphobic” for maintaining a friendship with the woman despite her ban.
The same day as the post went live, Males of Reddit shared a screenshot of the post on its more than 22,000 follower-strong Twitter account, prompting outrage and discussion. As of this article’s writing, the post has more than 1,400 likes and hundreds of retweets and responses.
“My mom suffered preeclampsia in both pregnancies, hence why my brother and I were preemies (7m and 6m). With him she almost bled to death, how TF could that larper understand and empathize with that experience? Or the one about the obstetricians’ violence and disregard?” one Twitter user wrote in response to Males of Reddit’s post.
Males of Reddit followed up to their screenshot by also posting screenshots of moderator-deleted comments using Reveddit, an archive which tracks deleted posts and comments across the entire website. Unsurprisingly, most of the deleted comments expressed criticism of the original poster’s actions, with one summarizing the post as “a non-mother removed a mother from a mother’s support group.”
Most of the comments deleted were done by transgender Reddit moderator Drewiepoodle, who just last year was exposed for having been inviting minors to his private residence for ‘gender affirming’ hormones with no parental or medical oversight.
While some Twitter users expressed disbelief at the authenticity of the Reddit post, this wouldn’t be the first time a gender ideology resulted in a women being removed from a female-specific service over claims of “transphobia.”
A woman in the United Kingdom was banned from accessing a resource center for rape survivors after expressing discomfort with a trans-identified male who had taken to attending the women’s counseling sessions. The pseudonymous Sarah Summers has spoken extensively about her experience, and subsequently chose to launch a legal challenge against Survivors’ Network as a result of their refusal to provide female-exclusive trauma support groups.
In July, a Canadian domestic abuse survivor was evicted from a transitional shelter in Vancouver, British Columbia for disagreeing with policies with allowed trans-identified males to be housed in the residence with the female victims.
Earlier this year, another post on r/MtF made the rounds on social media and even resulted in mainstream media coverage after a male posted photos of himself attempting to breast-feed a newborn baby in order to affirm his gender identity. On social media, many new and breast feeding mothers noted they’ve noticed an increase in men attending breast-feeding support groups.
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