Some of my followers may know that I help run the@allthecanadianpolitics blog, whose admin is @sciencetynan. She also runs a few other sideblogs, including allthegeopolitics and mindblowingscience, whom respectively posted articles on geopolitics and news in science. None of her accounts ever crossed terms & conditions. Sometime in the time I’ve known her and started helping her in posting articles she sends us to post, she began transitioning as a woman. For the longest time I’ve observed as tumblr has banned trans women and I anticipated the same would happen to my colleague. Lo and behold, over the last two days, allthegeopolitics and mindblowingscience were axed without notice or warning. She checked her email and received no warnings, no flagging, no reports. Nothing. For either of them. The accounts are completely deleted.
The first account that got banned was the geopolitics one, which was banned 1 hour and 45 minutes after she posted a post encouraging donations to help her pay off student debts and pay us for our assistance. In the tags she included the fact she was trans. The next day another account deletion followed. We strongly suspect a transmisogynistic pattern of conduct.
If my account gets deleted too, you know why.
(via sciencetynan)























