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For the record I was posting in support of inclusive language, but pointing out that context and convention matter.

They seem to have even scrubbed my comment from their instance, lol.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

He said, verbatim,

the exclamation of ' DUDE!' has no gender connotations to me. And if someone is offended... get over it, dude

They don't want that mentality in a trans community (shocking) so they preemptively banned him. Nobody is punishing him, he only thinks that because he feels uncomfortable about having to face his own internalized transphobia.