Old screenshot collage I made back in 2024 for the Trans Day of Visibility. It features Claire, canon trans woman, Jago, canon trans masc, and my V, Valentin, who's always been trans from the day I've made him in CC in 2020. :D

Let's share our trans Vs, I know there's plenty of us in the community 👉

I've put in my vote in the mod chat already and am posting this publicly to voice my opinion further.

The truth of the reason behind the rule is that the other mods are just tired of the long ass report queue that follows every Claire-related post. Lots of transphobic comments get reported and the other mods are just too tired to deal with it anymore. Reasonable to a degree, but also you can't just ban talking about a trans person because of transphobes.

Take the same concept but change the context- it's the same as banning talking about gay people because of homophobes, or banning talking about black people because of racists.

It's ridiculous, you can't just do that.

Might get removed as a mod for this post but oh well. It eez wot it eez.

UPDATE: The mods kicked me out of their discord and removed me from the mod team. Press F to Pay Respects.

I am trans myself, and i loved the entirely of Claire's campaign in the game and how much of a deep and complex character she is, and how enjoyable and nice she is as a person, it makes me very happy when media treats queer representation as something that shouldn't be shoved up with stereotypes and only made as a tiny little side of its content.

If yall actually played the game, watched the animes and comprehends the entirely of the punk culture, how the fuck do you decide that the best way to erradicate transphobia is by completely erasing trans representation and recognizition instead of being loud and annoying about those who shares hatred over this community???

If you really value the community of the game you supposedly understood very well, you are probably aware that you're doing this moderation job for free and there will always have more people on the waiting line that should be happy to moderate this place aswell.

If that somehow ever came into a consensus through the whole mod team, yall should do something else in your free time and let other people that actually understood the Cyberpunk universe and its critiques be moderators, and not you.

Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️

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Fuck your lazy transphobic ban on Claire, you’re actively contributing to the harm🖕

"Ay Ms. V, got a new gig for you. Easy eddies, just ban anyone talking about Claire and take care of that mod that stuck up for the right thing. Don't drop the ball though, could mean a lot of negative karma."

Head mod trying to damage control (check edit) an utterly BS rule to the sub and ostracizing someone that's fighting against it is cowardice and slimy. This is the kind of shit that causes subreddits to lose all faith in moderation and fold to bot-activity. BULLSHIT you're trying to be cordial by avoiding the drama, it was a BULLSHIT rational to begin with.

Edit: Going to add that the Mod who spoke up's post has apparrently been removed citing Rule 8- Witch-hunt, Accusations, and Calls to action

The Mods post was absolutely not calling for a witch hunt, did not name specific mods, and did not call for action against the moderation team. They specifically noted that they didn't believe that the rule was meant to be added for bigoted reasons, but rather as a method to avoid the burnout from constant BS reports about the character. They were respectful in this post and explained their disagreement with the moderation team appropriately.

As a trans woman myself, I think whole situation is disgusting. You should be ashamed to be Cyberpunk fans because being trans is a normal thing in the real world and ESPECIALLY in Cyberpunk universe.

Also a couple fun facts, did you know Jago Szabó (who is also canonically trans) from the Phantom Liberty DLC is voiced by a trans man? The voice actors name is Shaan Dasani.

And did you know TECHNICALLY everyone that has cyberware is trans? Transhumanism is what its called.

There’s nobody I’d rather talk to in the bar there’s nobody I’d rather race with. Complex,strong, and cares about people she loves in any circumstance I cannot blame her for wanting revenge for her husband I can only blame myself for not choosing the dialogue that allowed me to help her.

Fuck this mod team and everyone on it the only one of you with balls is gone now so what’s the point.

As the title says, why is it a witch hunt now that we all know how two-faced your apology is? Removing the only mod to speak out against your shit decision on top of only suspending the mod that caused this is an insanely tone deaf decision.

We fucked up, and as head mod, I fucked up. I take responsibility for everything posted by the mod team.

I can also say that nothing is changing around Claire. I’ve made it clear that our mandate is dictated by you, and that anything which deviates from that mission will not be tolerated.

The previous sticky was a reactionary post, and a misguided attempt to save people from transphobia. The thinking was, if we don’t allow those posts there won’t be any transphobia.

That’s a bullshit perspective.

Our job is to make sure that shit doesn’t reach you, while also facilitating discussion. Any mod who isn’t willing to put in the work removing those comments doesn’t deserve to be on the team.

I take full responsibility for this, I should have caught it before it became an issue.

I take great pride in how inclusive this community is, and I feel honoured that I get to help nurture it. I hope this community continues to be a safe space for trans folk in particular - because the internet can be very cruel to you. It is my one hope that you feel accepted and safe here, and the idea you felt betrayed by this community devastates me.

It won’t happen again

Edit: I didn’t want to go into mod drama but there are a lot of calls for us to take decisive action. I want to make it clear that the mod who initiated this has been suspended, while I deal with this problem. We will make a decision on their future in the coming days, and our direction will be influenced by the feedback in this post

Only corpo slime would ban a whistleblower and then silence critics without taking proper accountability.
You ain’t no samurai. You’re fucking lame!

You are NOT beating the Reddit Moderator allegations choom

"Guys we have a problem with bigots"

This place is clearly not a welcome space for anyone regardless of their identity anymore. instead of banning the mod who wanted to silence Claire posting, you ban the other mod who advocated for Claire posting and don’t even bother banning the transphobes in the community.

genuinely what the fuck was that 😭 this is the first time this happened to me

They banned discussion of Claire because she’s trans and as usual there are assholes who take issue with trans people in general for some reason. And rather then do their jobs and moderate the mods decided to ban posts about Claire all together. And then fired the mod who spoke up against them.

Get fucked mods go ahead and ban me.

Mods than go ahead and play the story again you didn't understand a lot.

Gotta love how every time a mod team fucks up they start googling "How to talk like a corpo shill 101" like that's gonna help.

I've missed the mod drama but know what's going on and oh my god these mods are pathetic, removing and banning the only mod who spoke up and not getting rid of the person who started the problem is so fucking stupid I can't believe it.

I'm usally a lurker in any subreddit but I won't just sit and do nothing about this just because of how stupid it is.

Today is a happy day hip hip horray