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NO SPEECH CODES! Not ever, no way, no how. NO SPEECH CODES!

Want to get away from the busy bodies and language police on other FTM sites? You've come to the right place. Free_Speech_FTM will challenge your comfort level. It is unmoderated and unfettered.

This is a place to talk about being a transman, or knowing one, or becoming one. It is primarily for discussion of transmale issues, or anything of particular interest to transmen. So, use your common sense, and try and stay on trans topic. Flagrant posters of non-trans content shall be warned and then -- flayed within an inch of their lives. Actually, I am joking, but you will be warned and lose your "free speech" and have to go back to the anal retentive zones of other ftm forums where every second word is vetted for offensiveness. In other words, you will never be able to talk about that diet on an FTM forum again!

Free_speech_FTM is to allow transmen and our friends, lovers, and interested others to express anything they want to, with any type of language that they wish to use. This language includes language considered by some or many to be: sexist, ablist, racist, transphobic and any other ism. Use any word you wish to, as long as you are willing to take responsibility for that word. That is, you will be treated as an adult, and I will not censor or baby-proof this forum. I am not saying that I personally approve of any particular type of language, or any specific word, but my compunctions about language are not important. This is for all of us to write freely. To reveal who we really are, how we feel and what we think, and to do so outside the arena of an all-seeing and unforgiving coterie of language censors.

If you don't like something someone says, hit the scroll bar!

Anyone reading this forum may be offended. Remember this before you enter. In other words, you might be "triggered"! If you are easily offended, stay away. Post on the other FTM forums where delicate sensibilities are encouraged, pampered and catered to.

There is no anonymous posting. Take ownership of your speech here. People often are posting controversial opinions and often, very personal anecdotes on this public forum, and I see no reason to allow anyone to hide behind an anonymous comment. Be at least brave enough to claim your comments. Anonymous comments feel unfair to the other members who take ownership of their posts and words.

Taking ownership means, on Free_Speech_FTM, that each user has responsibility for their own opinions and attitudes. I won't pretend to know better than you do by moderating your content, words, or tone.

Also, please do not disable comments or screen comments. This forum is to provide an avenue of communication and disabling and screening comments is not conducive to that end.

And if you are creating that perfect "troll" identity, that sock puppet, with an otherwise empty livejournal, don't expect to be welcome if you are here to harass or be an ass. And, you know what I mean! Anyone wishing to hide behind an empty LJ identity to harass members here will eventually be found out and kicked out. It might be "free speech" but that doesn't mean that people have to take shit from silly people with too much time on their hands, or grudges. So, no sock puppets! This forum is meant to encourage honest and authentic communication without speech codes, but it is not meant to be abused by sock puppet accounts who only wish to hurt other people from behind a veil of anonymity. If you want to be a pest, at least have the decency to do it from your active and actual LJ account, not a sock puppet. Take responsibility for your pesky little self.

I am forming this community because I am tired of the language policing that occurs on other transman-oriented sites, and want to to see a place where transmen and our friends can express our thoughts and feelings without the threat of hovering interference. That is, without being hectored by a self-righteous brigade of busy bodies.