LGBTQIA+ and iNaturalist

[nonbinary-naturalist]

@User-Deletion-In-Progress

@lynkos

I feel very strongly that an albeit virtual place such as iNat has enormous potential for overcoming preconceptions and discrimination and creating a real sense of community… but conflict is not the way.

There is literally no other way for overcoming preconceptions and discrimination except for talking about it and pushing back against those preconceptions, which is what we are doing here

Pretending the problem doesn’t exist only hurts marginalized communities, and if we thought there was no hope then literally this thread would be a ghost town, because we all would have left long ago-- but I believe in the Inaturalist cause and ethos, and I want the forums to be able to live up to that dream, and that means actual education and resources and talking about it, not just shrugging and pretending it never happened, which just allows it to happen again in the future.

Yeah, this ^ Sweeping problems under the rug doesn’t make them go away, it just means it’ll be worse next time, and more people will get hurt.