I made some off-hand comments on a post on 196 and didn’t realize they’d be taken the wrong way. I made a few more comments to help clarify my idea but caught a blanket ban from blahaj.zone with no warning or message.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=588349
I’m mortified :( It’s never been my goal to make others feel bad online. I had a quibble with the wording on a meme and clumsily worded my idea of “Our differences shouldn’t be minimized because they make us special” was seen as transphobia/TERF rhetoric.
But with no prior warnings or even a message from a mod to ‘cool it’, I got banned from the entire instance. I love these communities (feel free to look at my 2.5 years of comment/post history) and I would like to be able to continue to participate.
So, is there a formalized method of ban appeal beyond messaging mods? Their instance has like 12, so I don’t want to spam them and have it seen as harassment.
A lot of people don’t care for the notion that medically there are differences, and so sometimes the distinction is warranted and necessary.
There are two dominant presenting genders, but medically we know that the x and y genes aren’t represented in such a binary fashion. Some people latch onto this knowledge as proof there is no such thing as a “man” or “woman” anyways.
I’m just a parent of a trans child trying my best, and I often times run afoul of the more vocal in their community because I don’t align with their beliefs 100%.