How hard is it to say something like this on the trans issue?

[Ms. Toad]

15. I'm not questioning the intent of the poster to be hurtful -

But the reality is that these threads are extremely hurtful, regardless of whether the people engaging in them intend harm, or not.

Especially given the attacks on trans individuals going on right now, DU needs to be a place where they are not constantly on edge, wondering when the next rock is going to hit. And even when a discussion might contain a statement that the poster was truly unaware was hurtful, when it is pointed out (or alerted in), even if the person who made changed what they said to avoid being hurtful, there is a pile on, like happened yesterday on the first thread, debating, as EarlG said in locking the second one, how far too their trans individuals under the bus."

So, just like we wouldn't allow discussions on DU about whether there were scientific reasons to justify making blacks compete in their own separate basketball league to be fair to , the same is true for trans women.