We’ve gotten a lot of messages that follow certain themes as of late, so let me just cover all of those:

Tumblr is not your personal army. This blog’s followers are not your personal army. Internet history has proven time and time again that Tumblr makes for a horrible, horrible army. Do not tempt fate another time; summon people to report things on Facebook and Reddit and all that to the moderation team, but do not request people send hate or messages to anyone.

Do not whine about Christianity to us, whether your whining is “religion is evil and should be illegal!” or “I am a Christian and PEOPLE HATE ME EVEN MORE THAN LEELAH’S PARENTS HATED HER!”. For one, both of us are pagans (Emrys is Wiccan and I’m complicated), so regardless of which of those you’re spewing you’ve probably got us in the crossfires (not everyone is atheist or Christian, guys). For another, no matter what, you’re pushing a shitty agenda and distracting from the real issue here. Leelah’s parents were abusive and tried to ‘fix’ her; there are parents doing that from the viewpoint of all belief systems, including atheism, and people doing it in non-specific ways.

Some recent suicides and suicide attempts have some evidence suggesting they were fake. I may privately agree with some of this evidence, but I believe it is best protocol to treat all claims as true – if you treat it as true and you’re wrong at least you’re helping someone with other issues, if you treat it as false and you’re wrong you in a worst case scenario might trigger someone into a real attempt. Remember that the average Tumblr user is someone in their early teens with a serious mental illness or behaviour that could be mistaken for one. Yes, people should be held to their mistakes, but do not hate them in the process.

Do not apologise for being cis and talking about this. Cis people NEED to be talking about this, ESPECIALLY straight cis people.

Do not try and start infighting relating to the specific kinds of politik that have arisen on Tumblr, including debates on otherkin legitimacy, claims that dfab trans people are privileged somehow, or anything involving the word 'truscum’.

Thank you.

-Max