So what are we gonna do about it?

Percentages based off a single, voluntary survey are not actionable without knowing the root cause. Is it because there's less trans men in general? Is it because cis people are over-represented by virtue of them being far more prevalent in society? What is the optimal ratio we're going for?

IMO this is because Lemmy is still mostly targeted at techy/open source people. Trans women have already created their own communities/subculture in this world ('programmer socks' etc). But there's not that critical mass of trans men programmers to make a bustling community here.

Lemmy is probably also very white.

So we need more diverse topics to attract a more diverse audience. Right now, the only people signing up for Lemmy are people who have opinions about Internet protocols.

Cis here. There isnt much content on Lemmy, compared to reddit.

I don't participate in this community but I do see a lot of this instances posts on 'All'.

You can see that as a con, as you've pointed out, or as a plus, you've got reach outside of your community.

You may be better off with a private invite only community of some sort. I'm not sure if that is possible with Lemmy, it might be.

I dunno if you can force it. I think it might just be something that takes time.

Two ideas I have:

1. Find some other place that is primarily trans men and advertise this community there. I'm not sure where that would be though.

2. Ask people to recommend the trans men they know this community.

I'm a binary transdude, and I think the problem is that transmen tend to leave trans spaces once they have achieved their transition goals. They're more likely to be stealth irl, too. I don't think there's anything wrong with having an imbalance of gender identities in this space, and I don't think that steps need to be taken to correct it. It's pretty chill as is.

That’s right, there are more CIS WOMEN on a TRANS community than binary trans men or transmasculine people alone.

There are also more cis men than transfeminine people, so this isn't surprising. Bayes theorem explains this well.

I said this in the other thread, but perhaps Lemmy has an AFAB problem, rather. Maybe there's some particular trait attained in youth that boys are more likely to get which is a prerequisite for getting into lemmy later

Willingness to answer surveys is a trait inherited via the Y chromosome, apparently /s

I think this problem kinda carries over from Reddit too. There was more of everybody there of course, just because it was larger, but I think the demographics broke down similarly? On the other hand, I think Tumblr leaned the opposite direction, so it would be neat to see if that followed through on Wafrn (fediverse Tumblr-esque platform).

No idea what to actually do about it though, unfortunately... 😭

One thing I will suggest is to use the fact that you are the mod of one of the largest trans communities on lemmy to be absolutely biased towards content that encourages and appeals to trans masc folk. Stick a link to the trans masc communities in the side bar. Make posts about those communities and pin them.

Make posts with "CW: Assumes reader is trans masc". Put on trans masc mods. Make a weekly sticky post "Trans masc weekly chat - top level posts from trans masc folk only" etc.

The bias towards trans fem folk is common in a lot of social media spaces, and in my experience, one of the most effective ways of dealing with it is by explicitly making space for trans masc folk, and asking trans fem folk to take a back seat when needed.

You can't easily draw more trans masc folk to lemmy, but what you can do is make the guys that are here feel like they have explicit support and spaces where they won't get drowned out so they hang around longer. And over time, that changes the community to be more balanced. Feel free to use your position to create those opportunities. You have my explicit support to do so!

How about posting transmasc content? For example links to quality blog posts.

I'd be curious to learn more about it too.

Well, most of the transmen I know are barely online in the first place, so even less would be on Lemmy specifically

Sexism is somewhat of a regular occurrence on 196 and personally that really throws me off. I report sexist memes but mods there do not seem to care as the posts are never removed.

I think trans men are better at recognising sexism for obvious reasons than cis men and I think that as long as it’s a regular occurrence on the biggest community of this instance it will be a reason why some trans men (and cis women for that matter) decide not to stay here.

Fwiw I'm a trans man and I also work in tech lol. I didn't see the survey. I'm stealth irl and don't spend much time on trans communities/subs online either. I think this might be fairly common

Recommend this community to transmascs or on transmasc communities and make posts that will attract them! :3 The problem as always would be getting new people to make a lemmy account and understand how the fediverse works but they might like Blahaj Lemmy!

Also, anyone on the fediverse could participate on that poll, I'm 100% sure there wouldn't have been THAT many cis people if participation was somehow exclusive to people from this community, if u ask a question about identity everyone that sees it will feel the urge to answer it :p

Where do my tboy and trans masc bros like to hang out usually? I see a lot of trans masc stuff on Pinterest and I know a few on Threads, but idk where else?

I think the move would be to bring people over from other social networks though.

Part of the issue could be in overlap of identities. I could have identified myself as transmasc on the poll, but I chose nonbinary instead. Both are true most days, anyways.