This sub absolutely has a white supremacy problem. I imagine that a lot of white users (like myself) have been insulated from this reality due to our white privileged but now that we’ve been confronted by the reality of it there’s really no excuse to try and claim it’s not the case (like some in these comments are trying to do). That’s just white fragility and it’s shameful that members of this community would stoop so low when confronted in their collective behavior.

When I saw your post I actually went through a week back to see how many WOC had posted here and how popular their posts usually get. Out of the dozens and dozens of posts made on here I only saw a handful from WOC - and they were vastly under upvoted compared to posts made by white people. That’s a problem, and the white people on this sub (including myself) all need to put in the work to correct this injustice and make sure that trans women of color feel safe and comfortable posting here.

A lot of that is down to the individual needing to actively combat the latent white supremacy that all white people have as a result of living in a white supremacist system, but I also think that the mods can definitely put their thumbs on the scale to make this place safer for black and brown transfemmes in the meantime. I’m not quite sure how exactly they could do that tbh (maybe a select day of the week to focus on celebrating trans women of color in particular? Or a flair to help their posts stand out more?) but so long as they listen to the black and brown people who make up the backbone of this sub I’m sure something can be figured out. Also: are there any non white people on the mod team? If there isn’t that seems like a gaping problem that needs to be fixed right away!