I'm transfem. I avoid discourse and argumentative posts on tumblr for my own mental health, and I made a side blog to uplift trans, nonbinary, and intersex folks: mutual aid, fun memes, positivity/reassurances, guides/tips for transition, and so on. I stayed in my lane and wanted to make people happy with my little zen garden of a blog.

My blog then got marked as red and I started getting non-stop harassment and doxxing in my asks and messages. I received messages telling me I was a danger to trans women, that I was faking my gender and that I'm secretly a "filthy theyfab tme MRA", that I was a psyop infiltrating the community, and so on. And of course, plenty of death threats, suicide bait, and slurs that I cannot in good conscience list here.

The reason? Because I had been reblogging posts uplifting transmascs and intersex people. I even responded to some of the asks stating where I even posted anything that could be seen as remotely harmful to trans women, and the *only* response I ever got was linking to a post saying "love your local trans men". That was it. That was the only 'proof' I ever got. After years of running that positivity blog, it was me sharing a post saying trans men deserve love that got me marked as red. I was forced to deactivate. And now I'm glad I never linked my main account to that alt account of mine, or else I'd probably have lost that one too. All because I, a transfem, wanted to show some love to my other trans siblings.

From time to time, I'll see screenshots of tumblr users who have been marked green with this plugin. Users that I have seen say the most vile transphobic and intersexist stuff ever (and also, often, pretty blatantly racist too, but that's not the scope of this plugin). And yet these people are marked green, despite their blogs being full of BLATANT transphobia against anyone who isn't transfem (and the "right" kind of transfem, as I can personally attest to now).

So to the users marking this 5 stars defensively, saying "ummm maybe you wouldn't be marked red if you cared about transfems :) after all this plugin is for us, not for you :) you're all just terfs who are mad at us for wanting to be safe :)"

Yeah, I guess so. I guess this plugin *is* for you, now. It used to be for all trans people, for marking transphobia of any kind, no matter what. Now the devs have rewritten the rules to exclude certain anti-transmasc slurs as being considered transphobic, constantly mark transmascs, enbies, and intersex folks as red for just existing, and let actual bigots run around rampant with a lil green box around their name. Transfems that uplift their transmasc siblings, even if they don't engage in the discourse, get marked as red and chased out of the community.

This plugin, way back in the day, used to simply mark transphobes. A flawed system, perhaps (having a plugin that simply shows 'good' or 'bad' people is going to be abused in some way), but I can't say the goal wasn't noble. Now when I see a screenshot of a tumblr user and they're marked green, I check their blog, and 80% of the time they're engaging in harassment against anyone who isn't in their little circle of trans radfems. And I do not say 'radfem' lightly -- I'm seeing actual radfem rhetoric being used to silence anyone they think is the 'enemy' to them. It is a disgusting reversal. Y'all literally harassed punkitt for MONTHS for saying basic, tame, milquetoast shit like "Hey maybe being mean to trans men is wrong, actually", because you've become so steeped in this ridiculous infighting discourse. And this plugin is just the right hand of the law to you.

So thanks, shinigami eyes and the fanatics that support it: you've made an infighting tool that lets you destroy anyone you want by marking them red for the pettiest reasons ever. You've made a plugin that allows you to ostracize whichever queer people personally piss you off.

"Safe for transfems" my ass.

Signed, a transfem that y'all decided to make un-safe.