# ...will the board consider explicit transphobia hate-speech?

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**Created:** [October 23, 2019, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-board-consider-explicit-transphobia-hate-speech/842204 "2019-10-23T23:18:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-board-consider-explicit-transphobia-hate-speech/842204/244 "2019-11-19T05:19:37Z")

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> [@Should you expect to know what genitals a person has before a first date?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-you-expect-to-know-what-genitals-a-person-has-before-a-first-date/843329/293):
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> **Moderator Warning**
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> > [@Should you expect to know what genitals a person has before a first date?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-you-expect-to-know-what-genitals-a-person-has-before-a-first-date/843329/273):
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> > The tranny should assume that and know better. To discriminate in terms of accommodation or employment is one thing, a social setting is quite something else. IMHO of course.
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> I have let some of your other comments slide in the hope that this thread would be a good teaching opportunity (fighting ignorance and all that). In any event, we have consistently ruled that “tranny” is considered hate speech, so this is an official warning for hate speech.
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> You would be wise to heed the comments of others in this thread pointing out how offensive your comments are. While this thread is a good teaching opportunity, other threads will not be given such latitude.

What a lovely privilege, to get to decide, on behalf of minorities one is not a member of, which slurs cross the line into hate speech and which merely make for a “teaching opportunity”. Thankfully there’s no middle ground of screamingly obvious jerkishness between the two. And no doubt the opinions of actual trans posters on how they felt being used as a “teaching opportunity” were properly elicited first :rolleyes:

Props for \*finally \*getting around to issuing a warning, I guess, once there was literally no longer any choice.

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