ive used this add-on for an incredibly long time. it was useful, especially for news sources. however, you see it most used, of course, on social media.

originally the guide for this extension was that it was not for "infighting". i have my own issues with what was considered "infighting" vs "real transphobia", and was willing to extend the benefit of the doubt. it has become obvious that is no longer the case. regardless of your opinions on "the discourse", the latest swathes of trans and/or intersex people being marked red for no discernible reason other than *checks notes* being "special snowflakes"?????? for talking about their oppression? for being upset at being called 4chan slurs? well. it's obviously lost its appeal.

the extension is now completely useless. it is being used to mark out who the developers think are on the "right side" rather than a helpful indicator of an institution's beliefs. don't waste your time.

EDIT: because I have been seeing the developer replies, no intersex trans women or transfems assigned female at birth literally call themselves "AFAB transfem" including the AGAB in the identity. **But it is something they could be, and thats worth talking about** any intersex transfem online could have an F on her birth certificate and had to transition to live as a woman due to intersex puberty & even forceful reassignment in childhood. As an XtM intersex man I support my XtF intersex sisters. (X in this case because plenty of intersex people consider categorizing their bodies as M/F pre-transition to be inaccurate to their physiology, not because they were literally assigned X) cisgender and transgender weren't made for us. The only way we can use these terms to express our lived experiences is to use them "incorrectly", and frankly, intersex people's labels aren't something you get a say on if you are perisex. Good day.

I used to use this as a great resource to determine which publications were trustworthy on trans issues, until it was wrongfully used against me because a handful of people disliked my demands for proper intersex inclusion.

I am an intersex activist who often talks about my struggles feeling welcome in the trans community, and about the way non-intersex trans folks could be better allies to us and our community. I run a blog where I spread useful and important information about intersex issues, I boost trans voices, and I all around am very passionate in my fight for the liberation of sex variant people of all sort. I'm against binary categorization of both gender and "biological sex". I talk about the ways in which intersex people often have "confusing" identities, I myself would consider myself cis and trans simultaneously; an identity that is incredibly connected to my messy intersex socialization. This seems to be the reason I was marked anti-trans, under the idea that my actual lived experience as an intersex person is an ""obvious troll identity"",

I've been marked red. In a conscious and calculated attempt to keep my voice as an intersex person away from trans people, my natural allies, who need to hear it the most. Good idea for an extension, terrible execution.

Really getting quite frustrated that myself and my friends are ranked as 'trans unfriendly' because we have the audacity to say that trans men experience oppression, while not saying anything negative about any other trans person. This is not a tool for helping you avoid transphobes as advertised. They even don't include slurs used against nonbinary people (such as 'theyfab') in their criteria for being 'trans unfriendly'.

EDIT: Also forgot to mention, there is a lot of intersexism in the guidelines, citing the way that intersex people talk about their oppression - which would help liberate trans people also - as inherently transphobic. I don't like using this term, really, but this is not an add-on for helping you weed out transphobes, it is an app for helping you create a perisex (non-intersex) trans fem only echo chamber.

Seems to have little to no moderation. I keep seeing users who are marked red or green despite not fitting the guidelines described on the extension's website. It seems like it would be extremely easy for someone to abuse this.

Once a useful tool for avoiding transphobia online, now completely useless because the people in charge of deciding who is marked red and who is marked green are so caught up in intracommunity infighting that theyve started marking other trans people as unsafe, for reasons as trivial and insignificant as "dared to talk about their own experiences with transphobia in a way i didn't like". I frequently see people spewing the most vile, transphobic, indistinguishable-from-jk-rowling transphobia marked as green on shinigami eyes, but because its directed at trans men and nonbinary people, its A-OK! meanwhile the most trans-accepting people in the world are marked as red because they *don't* openly hate trans men and nonbinary people. The guidelines openly state that use of slurs originating from 4chan nazis specifically to refer to transmascs and nonbinary people are not enough to warrant being marked red. In which case, what's the point? Is this not intended to tell you who is and is not transphobic? How is "using transphobic slurs" not enough to warrant being marked transphobic? Truly a useless extension. But honestly, it was kind of doomed to fail from the beginning.

Honestly, while I use this add-on more to mark stuff myself, and it is useful for that; I cannot actively support the creator of it since she seems to be perfectly fine with transphobia directed at Trans men, mascs, and nonbinary people. And as well as fine with intersexism (sexism directed to intersex individuals). Several times this extension has marked people green who are spewing transphobic rhetoric of other trans people, but then mark red trans men and intersex people speaking to their own oppression and lived experiences. Genuinely, it is disheartening seeing a creator of what should be a trans friendly extension- be grossly transphobic and intersexist to the very people they claim to 'protect'.

Really disappointing that the creators of this extension seem to think slurs against trans men and mascs don’t actually count as transphobia and instead just call it “community infighting.” What is the point of an extension to mark people as transphobic if you’re going to create exceptions like that? Do you understand the message you’re sending - that it’s okay to be transphobic as long as it’s against the “right” kind of trans person? If you only care about transphobia as it affects trans women and fems, then say that. If you care about protecting all trans people from transphobes online, then please consider rethinking this slide towards radical feminism.

This used to be a really great way to easily avoid radfems and transmedicalists, but unfortunately now it's literally worse than useless, because the moderators have become radical feminists themselves, and have decided that viscious bigotry against trans people is actually okay, as long as they're trans men or nonbinary people, or even other trans women who aren't radfems!!

People who are literally advocating for all trans men to be forcibly detransitioned or to kill themsleves as "pennance for identifying as men" are marked green. But if you point out how horrific this behavior is, you're marked red.

Don't fucking bother.

Edit: Oh, and fuck you to the moderators for deciding that literal slurs against nonbinary people are perfectly fine and acceptable. Thanks for proving you don't care about literally anyone but yourselves.

Edit Nov 25 2024: Now the developer is literally just spamming every review pointing out this rampant bigotry with the exact same intersexist crap claiming that intersex people who are just trying to use words to describe their experiences are TERFs. The moderators are also claiming that "binary trans woman" is a slur equivalent to theyfab.

Yeah, don't bother with this extension unless you're just an intersexist, exorsexist, transandromisic bigot.

Because these days the only people this extension is serving are perisex trans women who hate every other trans person in existence. They'll even mark trans women who are not as violently hateful as they are red and pass it on through.

A few years ago, this add-on was reliably able to mark transphobes. These days, it's largely just spam, at least on the websites I use. On Wikipedia, it amounts to little more than a "No shit, Sherlock" (Wow, the Catholic Church is transphobic? I never woulda guessed). On tumblr, it has become a tool of the people who seek to divide the trans community. People who speak about issues faced by the intersex community, nonbinary community, or trans masculine community can get marked red despite saying nothing that is against trans people. This tool is now completely ineffective, and I cannot trust either the green or the red markings.

Edit: I dropped my review from 2 stars to 1 star. The reason is based on the comment the developer has been leaving on many complaints similar to mine. "Transmasculine, intersex and xenogender people are welcome. Just don't use "AFAB trans woman", as it forces trans women to use "AMAB" or "male", aligning your goal with that of TERFs." Transmasculine, intersex, and xenogender people are actively telling you that we are being made to feel UNWELCOME! All you're doing is saying "Well, you COULD come to this place where slurs against you are acceptable, where terms like 'theyfab' 'itfab' and 'afag' aren't enough to get you kicked out. You COULD come to this place where discussing your unique oppressions like your erasure from history and news reports and culture gets you marked as Bad. It's welcoming to you!"

It. Is. Not. Welcoming. We are not welcome to use this extension if we want to talk about our issues. If trans men just sit there and look pretty, then we're welcome. Wonder where we've heard that...

(November 25th 2024)Used to love this extension, then the people running it started drinking the radical feminist koolaid, and refuse to have solidarity with their fellow queer folks.

They will allow people who rabidly hate on trans men and intersex identities to be marked Green, but will mark anyone Red who even dares to call out transmedicalism and transphobia if the person who's spouting such rhetoric happens to be a trans woman.

If you are a trans man and you try to talk about how you need access to reproductive health including abortions and birth control, you can be marked Red for 'speaking over trans women'.

If you are a trans woman who spends all your time praising and worshipping other trans woman but say that all trans men need to die or shut up forever and stop 'speaking over women', then you will be marked Green no matter how many trans people who are impacted by this violent rhetoric mark you red for the transphobia you are spouting.

Shinigami eyes used to be good.............. or at least it seemed like it was good. Now it is just a way to knee-jerk silence calls for solidarity within the community, because if people are relying JUST on the colors and not seeing what people are actually saying.... lots of intersex and trans men are being marked deliberately red to try to silence them by framing them as "transmisogynistic" in some way shape or form, when half the time they're literally just talking about their own daily struggles and not even mentioning trans women.

But, of course, if you've only read Whipping Girl as your sole source of "queer essay literature" and you're a trans woman, of *course* you're going to be convinced that Trans Women Are The Most Oppressed People In The World, "what's the harm in wanting all of these marginalized queer men to die based purely on their gender identity as men?" and you'll still be marked green with this extension if you think and say that shit unironically.

EDIT, November 28th 2024:

Well, the Developers have now confirmed they don't give a crap about intersectionality or solidarity, and that the only "intersectionality" that matters to them is if people worship trans woman above all others, even when those trans women are radical feminists spewing violent hatred at every single one of their trans siblings and the greater queer community at large,

including erasing the impact of the AIDS crisis on gay and bisexual men, sodomy laws, and more, creating entire accounts whose sole purpose is to stalk inclusive tags and harass and insult trans activists who don't demonize 50% of the world's population and worse.

if you're somehow all the way back on this page to see this 1 star review and you're wondering why there's so many new 5-star reviews with zero mention of the intersexism and exorsexism, the radical feminists have decided to try to artificially inflate the rating, but too bad for them, radical feminists are always the minority within a movement, and the rest of the community has banded together in solidarity to stand up again biological essentialism,

which is what the radical feminists are standing for, even if they're painting it as somehow "progressive" to demonize trans men and intersex folk for daring to *identify* as men, insisting that they are inherently evil and oppressive and benefit from the patriarchy.....

even when they have not realized yet that they are trans men (so, literally, are still cis women) or are not out of the closet because its not safe to do so (aka, presenting as a cis woman to society) -- rad fems would have you believe these people are somehow inherently dangerous and oppressive because they're men, and that somehow magically changes how they're viewed by society which hates trans people of all flavours, not just trans women as the trans-inclusive radical feminists would have you believe.

i would love you to update your description that this extension supports bluesky!!!

Extremely hit-or-miss nowadays. Intersexist people are randomly marked green while actual trans-friendly and transgender people (like MYSELF) get marked red. This extension needs to be remade with more robust vetting policies.

i used to really enjoy this addon, it helped me know which people are safe to interact with and which aren't. but recently ive found a startling amount of people who are highlighted as "trans-friendly" because theyve made posts uplifting their side of the community, while condemning and harassing and making transphobic posts about transmasculine people. i no longer see the point in using this addon when people who are not trans friendly are marked as such.

works well on tumblr but wayyyy too many false positives on twitter. like to the point where i need to wonder if a green account is an actually normal person or someone with the most rancid ideas of trans men you've ever seen. also theyfab isn't some high-tier queer theory jargon it's literally just a 4chan slur meant for community gatekeeping

edit: also looks like anyone who calls out the bs of a certain group of twitter users has a fair chance of getting marked as red for just that and nothing more. sorry but that cis woman who got outed as a notorious internet troll 10 years ago isn't gonna save you LOL

in what WORLD is "theyfab" NOT a transphobic slur? why is the use of that - a term SPECIFICALLY used to belittle and mock enbies - NOT enough to be considered transphobic?

bonus intersexism in the guidelines, so wooo fuckin useless at ACTUALLY filtering transphobes

Sad to see the addon guidelines for marking as trans positive/anti- change to the point where intersex-specific language is held up as an "obvious false flag" and "troll identity", and negative inter-community AGAB-based language and other interactions are "out of scope." Will not be reinstalling.

The creators are openly intersexist and the guidelines for who counts for what are just completely incoherent. At this point it's literally useless.