Medium Called My Latest Article “Hate Speech” and Suppressed It
It warned parents about the pro-trans agenda at our public schools and libraries
Online writing platforms come and go, and it’s safe to say Medium is on the way out. I’ve written for other sites during their decline (such as the now defunct Hubpages), so I recognize the signs all too well.
When the top-earning writers skedaddle, it's the beginning of the end. Their articles start to earn them less, so it’s no longer worth their time and effort to remain on the platform. As a result, the site rapidly begins to fill up with junk.
Nowadays, I scour Medium for anything interesting to read, but it’s a big waste of time. It’s like sitting on a sofa, channel surfing to desperately find something compelling to watch on TV only to constantly come up empty.
Because folks purchase a subscription to read the articles on Medium, they expect quality material. At this point, it’s simply a waste of their money unless, of course, they want to read endless pieces about how wondrous it is to be trans.
If a Martian reached our planet and landed on the Medium platform, he’d surely conclude that 90 percent of earthlings have switched their genders. Not only that, he would be thoroughly convinced that transitioning was the best thing humans ever do.
He’d come away thinking that human parents are so enthralled by gender switching that they enthusiastically push it on their kids, even their preschoolers. Of course, it’s pure propaganda.
Furthermore, if someone dissents, their opinions will be suppressed. There’s no freedom of speech on Medium when it comes to anything to do with being transgender.
It’s like the end of a marriage
In many ways, being part of a declining online writing platform is like living through the final months of a marriage that’s gone sour. There’s a lack of communication, a dearth of transparency, and an absence of respect. There’s an emotional distancing.
When a marriage goes kaput, one spouse is often calling the shots. The other one, meanwhile, is left in the dark, not knowing what happened to the relationship. They feel lost, confused, betrayed, and off balance.
Was there someone else? Did their partner fall out of love with them? Did their spouse no longer find them attractive?
When it comes to Medium and me, I’m definitely in the bewildered spouse position. When their staffers pulled my most recent article off their site, calling it “hate speech,” I figured we weren’t really right for each other from the get-go. I was ready to call it quits.
As someone who’s taught preschool and kindergarten, I’m all about protecting little kids. I can’t write for a platform that isn’t the same way.
The article Medium deemed “hateful” is here:
https://mckennameyers.substack.com/p/why-preschools-in-america-began-rolling
It alerts parents to the pro-trans agenda that has seeped into our public schools and libraries. There’s no hate in the article, just information that concerned moms and dads need to know.
Medium is chock-full of hate
Writers on Medium are given a lot of leeway. The site is chock-full of articles that are mean, nasty, vulgar, and highly critical of White people, conservatives, Christians, Republicans, and Trump supporters. That kind of hate is allowed and even encouraged.
When I pointed out in my article that some teachers and librarians are reading books to preschoolers that celebrate trans characters, I received this email from a Medium staffer:
Hateful content
We do not allow content that constitutes or promotes violence, harassment, or hatred against people based on characteristics like race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, disability, disease, age, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity.
We do not allow posts or accounts that glorify, celebrate, downplay, or trivialize violence, suffering, abuse, or deaths of individuals or groups. This includes the use of scientific or pseudoscientific claims or misleading statistics to pathologize, dehumanize, or disempower others. We do not allow calls for intolerance, exclusion, or segregation based on protected characteristics, nor do we allow the glorification of groups which do any of the above.
Thanks,
Trust & Safety
My article, however, didn’t contain one iota of hate toward transgender folks or anyone else for that matter. What they objected to was the subject matter itself.
They don’t want the American public to know that teachers and librarians are reading protrans books to preschoolers. They know this would hurt their cause.
It’s reminiscent, after all, of public libraries in California having drag queens host preschool story time. It wasn’t a good look and received a lot of backlash.
They’re suppressing information parents need to know
My goal was to inform parents, grandparents, and taxpayers that this was happening at our public schools. However, Medium killed my article.
Unfortunately, the media regularly suppresses information nowadays. Their sites are tailor-made for what their audience wants to hear and read.
CNN and MSNBC, for example, never covered the border crisis when millions of illegal immigrants flooded into the country during Biden’s watch. Fox News never covered all the thousands and thousands of people who died from covid during the Trump years.
Medium doesn’t allow anything negative about the trans community. Their platform has been taken hostage by extremists who want to silence any differing views.
My article being deemed “hate speech” proves to me that the Medium platform is dying as a young, radical group of employees seize control. It’s a sad thing because I once enjoyed writing and reading on Medium, but the signs are loud and clear that it’s time to move on.