Omg! I actually have a story about that server lol.
A little background first though: Back in the winter, when Null was asking for MATI community stories, I had just joined this server, and emailed him about it. I didn't think he'd ever spotlight it (and he didn't) since it's really just discord being discord. But it's helpful that I still have that email since I have access to all the screenshots I took.
So I joined this server when it was fairly new, just trying to meet friends after I realized how few friends (especially girlfriends) I had in game when compared to my boyfriend. At worst, I figured it would be another place to browse around when I got bored.
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I ended up joining to check it out and at first it seemed okay, but I quickly realized that a large number of the "women" in the group were trans:
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I could go on and on but just searching "trans" in the introductions thread should give a reasonable idea (and remember, this screenshot was from Nov 2021. I can only imagine that there are
way more now)...
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What really bothers me is this:
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So men have to be invited to the server, and they get their own role that locks them from the majority of channels. But if a man
says he's a woman? "Well come right on in!"
It's ridiculous.
And what's even more of a joke? There's a
verification process that you have to go through to prove you're a woman if you want access to all of the channels. But it's all irrelevant. If you can just
say you're a woman, why does it even matter?
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It's just all so stupid. And all the other
actual women that I encountered in the server were clearly political extremists pushing this kind of stuff. Maybe things have changed. But I highly doubt it. Needless to say I saw a lot of red flags and noped the fuck out of there.
TLDR; The server should really be called "FFXIV Leftists + Trannies Only".
EDIT: Removed a pic of the girl who ran the server. When I made that email I was certain she was a tranny too (lol) but I'm almost certain that isn't the case now. So it's irrelevant to the story.