so… I actually agree that defederation may not be necessary here if your instance got its shit together and started modding transphobia as they say they will, and that the evidence was poorly presented and evaluated. At least one of your admins seems really on top of recognizing and calling out transphobia, but is not currently empowered to delete it in the politics comms.

BUT, not because the user in question wasn’t being transphobic or was just discussing the law , as you’ve asserted further down the chain here. they literally insisted that woman = cis woman and “transwoman” is something different, with no reference to the law. this is literally just a slightly more roundabout way of saying trans women arent real women, an obviously transphobic statement. Combined with the context of defending a ruling and a position by your PM in favor of banning trans women from womens spaces and other discriminatory measures, and the on the ground hate crimes it will inspire, thats actually a despicable position to take and defedding over that is not extreme for a vast-majority-queer instance.

And we aren’t shutting off from ‘the entire country’, just one instance with moderation issues. just as I wouldnt be caught dead on lemmy.muri.ca, plenty of uk users aren’t restricting themselves to the instance with a fuckin union jack on it, and those are the ones I’m interested in talking to anyhow

It’s not isolationism to have standards, and we’re actually significantly larger and more active than .uk on our own lol. The only varying opinion I’ve ever seen from your instance is liberalism or worse, which can’t be said for many of our other federated instances, who occasionally serve up different views that aren’t just what I can see on tv news.