A few years ago, this add-on was reliably able to mark transphobes. These days, it's largely just spam, at least on the websites I use. On Wikipedia, it amounts to little more than a "No shit, Sherlock" (Wow, the Catholic Church is transphobic? I never woulda guessed). On tumblr, it has become a tool of the people who seek to divide the trans community. People who speak about issues faced by the intersex community, nonbinary community, or trans masculine community can get marked red despite saying nothing that is against trans people. This tool is now completely ineffective, and I cannot trust either the green or the red markings.

Edit: I dropped my review from 2 stars to 1 star. The reason is based on the comment the developer has been leaving on many complaints similar to mine. "Transmasculine, intersex and xenogender people are welcome. Just don't use "AFAB trans woman", as it forces trans women to use "AMAB" or "male", aligning your goal with that of TERFs." Transmasculine, intersex, and xenogender people are actively telling you that we are being made to feel UNWELCOME! All you're doing is saying "Well, you COULD come to this place where slurs against you are acceptable, where terms like 'theyfab' 'itfab' and 'afag' aren't enough to get you kicked out. You COULD come to this place where discussing your unique oppressions like your erasure from history and news reports and culture gets you marked as Bad. It's welcoming to you!"

It. Is. Not. Welcoming. We are not welcome to use this extension if we want to talk about our issues. If trans men just sit there and look pretty, then we're welcome. Wonder where we've heard that...

(November 25th 2024)Used to love this extension, then the people running it started drinking the radical feminist koolaid, and refuse to have solidarity with their fellow queer folks.

They will allow people who rabidly hate on trans men and intersex identities to be marked Green, but will mark anyone Red who even dares to call out transmedicalism and transphobia if the person who's spouting such rhetoric happens to be a trans woman.

If you are a trans man and you try to talk about how you need access to reproductive health including abortions and birth control, you can be marked Red for 'speaking over trans women'.

If you are a trans woman who spends all your time praising and worshipping other trans woman but say that all trans men need to die or shut up forever and stop 'speaking over women', then you will be marked Green no matter how many trans people who are impacted by this violent rhetoric mark you red for the transphobia you are spouting.

Shinigami eyes used to be good.............. or at least it seemed like it was good. Now it is just a way to knee-jerk silence calls for solidarity within the community, because if people are relying JUST on the colors and not seeing what people are actually saying.... lots of intersex and trans men are being marked deliberately red to try to silence them by framing them as "transmisogynistic" in some way shape or form, when half the time they're literally just talking about their own daily struggles and not even mentioning trans women.

But, of course, if you've only read Whipping Girl as your sole source of "queer essay literature" and you're a trans woman, of *course* you're going to be convinced that Trans Women Are The Most Oppressed People In The World, "what's the harm in wanting all of these marginalized queer men to die based purely on their gender identity as men?" and you'll still be marked green with this extension if you think and say that shit unironically.

EDIT, November 28th 2024:

Well, the Developers have now confirmed they don't give a crap about intersectionality or solidarity, and that the only "intersectionality" that matters to them is if people worship trans woman above all others, even when those trans women are radical feminists spewing violent hatred at every single one of their trans siblings and the greater queer community at large,

including erasing the impact of the AIDS crisis on gay and bisexual men, sodomy laws, and more, creating entire accounts whose sole purpose is to stalk inclusive tags and harass and insult trans activists who don't demonize 50% of the world's population and worse.

if you're somehow all the way back on this page to see this 1 star review and you're wondering why there's so many new 5-star reviews with zero mention of the intersexism and exorsexism, the radical feminists have decided to try to artificially inflate the rating, but too bad for them, radical feminists are always the minority within a movement, and the rest of the community has banded together in solidarity to stand up again biological essentialism,

which is what the radical feminists are standing for, even if they're painting it as somehow "progressive" to demonize trans men and intersex folk for daring to *identify* as men, insisting that they are inherently evil and oppressive and benefit from the patriarchy.....

even when they have not realized yet that they are trans men (so, literally, are still cis women) or are not out of the closet because its not safe to do so (aka, presenting as a cis woman to society) -- rad fems would have you believe these people are somehow inherently dangerous and oppressive because they're men, and that somehow magically changes how they're viewed by society which hates trans people of all flavours, not just trans women as the trans-inclusive radical feminists would have you believe.

i used to really enjoy this addon, it helped me know which people are safe to interact with and which aren't. but recently ive found a startling amount of people who are highlighted as "trans-friendly" because theyve made posts uplifting their side of the community, while condemning and harassing and making transphobic posts about transmasculine people. i no longer see the point in using this addon when people who are not trans friendly are marked as such.

works well on tumblr but wayyyy too many false positives on twitter. like to the point where i need to wonder if a green account is an actually normal person or someone with the most rancid ideas of trans men you've ever seen. also theyfab isn't some high-tier queer theory jargon it's literally just a 4chan slur meant for community gatekeeping

edit: also looks like anyone who calls out the bs of a certain group of twitter users has a fair chance of getting marked as red for just that and nothing more. sorry but that cis woman who got outed as a notorious internet troll 10 years ago isn't gonna save you LOL

in what WORLD is "theyfab" NOT a transphobic slur? why is the use of that - a term SPECIFICALLY used to belittle and mock enbies - NOT enough to be considered transphobic?

bonus intersexism in the guidelines, so wooo fuckin useless at ACTUALLY filtering transphobes

Sad to see the addon guidelines for marking as trans positive/anti- change to the point where intersex-specific language is held up as an "obvious false flag" and "troll identity", and negative inter-community AGAB-based language and other interactions are "out of scope." Will not be reinstalling.

The creators are openly intersexist and the guidelines for who counts for what are just completely incoherent. At this point it's literally useless.

This extension is almost pointless now with how it does not care to actually protect the people it's supposed to be protecting. Letting intracommunity discourse and personal biases get in the way of objective marking. Marking people as anti-trans just because they have opinions the extension makers don't like. Marking allies as pro-trans just because they aren't transphobic, even if they aren't actively fighting for us. Marking people who actively go out of their way to attack and misgender only certain types of trans people, and intersex people, as pro-trans because "it's okay when it's *these* groups because they are bad". I've been using this add-on since 2018, but I don't see much point in having this anymore if it is straying from its initial goals to create useless markings.

This extension has become absolutely useless for most purposes. Perhaps as a transmisogyny detector, however trans women will always be marked green by default, regardless of how horiffically transphobic they are towards other trans people.

The developer has specifically stated that slurs aimed at nonbinary people are acceptable and will not result in a negative rating. It appears slurs and even straight up misgendering and transphobia aimed at transmascs are acceptable too, because everyone I've seen using them repeatedly and stating their hatred for transmascs has been either marked green or occasionally unrated.

Hi, I'm transfemme. "Theyfab" is an anti-trans slur and we should not play into patriarchal transmisia by not treating it as such. I'll change my review if you fix this. I'm friends with many people affected by this slur and it's silly and divisive to not treat it as such. Trans people don't all hate each other because we came from different backgrounds and have different genders- that's just overemphasized internet drama, not real life. I gave all my old masculine clothes to a friend affected by this slur, and I don't feel comfortable not treating it as a slur. A word that bioessentializes someone's AGAB as their gender is absolutely the definition of transphobia and constitutes a slur. This is like basic transfeminism 101.

made a guide to say its okay to use a slur that misgenders enby people, good job everyone /s

The moderators have begun marking trans people as transphobic for specific stances on intra-community issues; this extension is now useless because of that.

unreliable these days since a lot of people are getting marked red despite being very trans-positive or even previously marked green, and a lot of random people suddenly turning green despite not meeting any requirements. moderation should step up imo.

at one point it seemed decently reliable, but i just saw the entire wikipedia dot org article for okra - yes the plant/food - flagged as transphobic so i uhhh. i have very VERY serious doubts about how well moderated (if at all) the submissions are anymore

Not accurate and relies on feelings instead of facts, what one person thinks is fine another will freak out over. Reviews can't be fact based on something that doesn't rely on facts.