Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25034020-20170411080800/@comment-25034020-20170418114742

LeahCCinnamon wrote: Well, I've seen this coming. I sort of hoped the other admins would step in, because I'm still quite new to this. But I am also gay and transgender, so let your new, gay transgender admin give her two cents on this.

These homophobic comments are ridiculous, yes. And they are not opinions. An opinion is "I like pineapple on pizza" and "Cure Peace is the best Cure". Things like "gay couples are not normal" or "I don't want a masculine appearing person to identify as a girl" is homophobia and transphobia and a specific kind of hate speech that is actually a bannable offense.

This is part of wikia's main guidelines: "We don't allow homophobic language, ethnic slurs or religious hate. That means no language or content that encourages hatred or violence, or that disparages others on the basis of their race, gender, sexuality, religion, country of origin and so on."

So no, we don't have to "deal with it" aka ignore it when someone is being a homophobic jerk. We need to build an inclusive community that makes all kinds of people feel safe.

Now to Spirits Ninja: It's nice you say you're supportive of Akira and Yukari's potential blossoming relationship, but this was not transparent at all in your initial post. You implied that their relationship would only be normal if Akira was a boy, which troubled me, yes, person belonging to LGBT, as well. Please apologise for that and show your supposedly supportive side. Right now, a lot of queer folks are visiting this wiki because of the new season. What do you wanna be, supportive and friendly or a potential jerk?

Last note, sometimes I hear stuff like "I like this gay couple but I am still straight!!". Which is weird because I would never say "but I'm still gay though!!" if I commented on liking Nagisa&FujiP or Shitataare&Kintoleski. The notion is still that gay people are abnormal and you do not want to be associated with being gay. And that's a defense mechanism I only support if you are part of an extremely homophobic country or household and you have to defend yourself against being put in jail/thrown out of your household etc. Which is something gay people do a lot btw, pretend to be straight so they do not have to suffer against homophobia. Often, the internet is the only means of being themselves. Who do you want to be? Supportive and welcoming? Or a reminder of the hate they have to experience daily? I would have said this, if I had a brain, time, and a non existance headache. Oh, and English on my side!

So, great work, leah!