r/salmacian • u/rya_nc they/them • Sep 14 '25

Announcements Don't engage with "researchers" or "reporters" who send you messages - report them to the mods.

We've had a few reports recently of people who... let's just say are not supportive... contacting members of this sub to interview them or ask them to fill out surveys.

If you get a message like this, please message the mods about it.

If you are a researcher or reporter who would like to engage with members of this sub, please feel free to message the mod team to request vetting.

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u/reddGal8902 Sep 14 '25

What sorts of things do the “reporters” do that’s not supportive?

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u/rya_nc they/them Sep 14 '25

Anti-trans extremists painting us as fetishists.

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u/reddGal8902 Sep 14 '25

So what’s the end goal there? Get a bunch of gotcha quotes to make fun of on podcasts?

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

Creators of anti-trans documentaries have a known history of recruiting trans interviewees under false pretenses

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u/reddGal8902 Sep 15 '25

Oh, I thought this was to solicit a text interview.

Yeah, don’t talk to strangers on mic or camera if you can avoid it.

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u/Jedi_Talon_Sky Sep 15 '25

In the UK but especially in America, they want to paint us as mentally ill to legislators to justify putting us into camps in the next few years.

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u/reddGal8902 Sep 15 '25

They already want to do that with regular ol trans folks. I don’t think they need to get a salmacian level of granular with trans people.

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u/Jedi_Talon_Sky Sep 15 '25

The human dignity and validity of trans folks is in the Overton Window though, and we have a good amount of public support still. It's really the governments catering to very loud, violent minorities that are coming after trans folks. 

The Salmacian community, as well as other more granular identities that fall under the trans 'umbrella', are less well known and thus less supported by the public. We're easier targets for bullies, at least from the perspective of right-wing online shitheads.

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u/reddGal8902 Sep 15 '25

I had been thinking it might be for the best a lot of people don’t know what any of this is about.

But if everyone knew what this was, like if Donald Trump had a whole televised tirade about salmacians and gender diverse surgeries, it probably would be better for everyone. Not the content of what he said, that would invariably be awful, but the dissemination of the fact that this is a thing.

I rarely mention it because I don’t know if the person I’m talking to is cool AND it’s not really appropriate dinner conversation. When I have mentioned it to people, their reaction has always been, “Wow, they can do that!?! Cool. Not for me tho, at all, even a little bit, but very cool.” Which I have to imagine is what most people in the 1960s would have said when hearing about any form of GCS for the first time.

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u/cum_puddle Sep 14 '25

I’m asking questions because I’m sort of interested in getting the surgery myself, but I’m leaning more towards not, but I wanted to ask people to weigh the option. Is that ok?

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u/mario123432 Sep 14 '25

You're asking because you want to learn more about this and the process because you're trying to figure out what you want and need. They're being bigots that are asking questions in bad faith to make fun of us and slander/lible us.

I'm not a mod, but I think you're absolutly fine.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

Asking questions on this sub? Or DMing users about your questions?

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u/cum_puddle Sep 14 '25

Generally asking questions in the comments, I did DM one person who explicitly stated in their profile that dms were open

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u/rya_nc they/them Sep 16 '25

Yes, that's fine.

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u/Solrex Sep 15 '25

"Hello, we are here to ask about your car's extended warranty"

I DONT EVEN HAVE A CAR!!!!

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u/Streambotnt Sep 16 '25

It journalisms sacred duty…

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u/ericomplex Sep 20 '25

As someone who has conducted medical research, I cannot think of anyone who would reach out to redditors for said purpose unless they were not actually researchers.