Shinigami Eyes Is Failing the Community It Was Meant to Protect

Shinigami Eyes is not being “review bombed.” It is being rightfully called out for perpetuating transphobia, intersexism, and internalized community bias. This extension, once a helpful tool for flagging transphobic or unsafe spaces, is now actively contributing to the very harm it was created to prevent.

Let me be clear: I love and support trans women and transfeminine people. My critique is not rooted in misogyny or transmisogyny, but in a commitment to the safety and dignity of all gender-expansive people—including transmascs, nonbinary people (often dismissively labeled as “theyfabs”), intersex individuals, and our allies.

Too many voices in our community are being silenced by this tool. Transmascs, nonbinary people, and intersex folks are being marked red—“unsafe”—not for any transphobic or bigoted behavior, but simply for speaking out about our lived experiences with oppression and systemic sexism. Meanwhile, accounts that promote violence against transmascs and men, deny nonbinary or intersex identities, or spread hate are still being marked green—“safe.”

This isn’t just individual bias. It’s systemic harm. It’s the erasure of marginalized voices within an already marginalized community. And it defeats the entire purpose of Shinigami Eyes.

To the developers and moderators: you must do better. Learn to recognize transmisogyny (sexism against trans women), transmisandry (sexism against trans men), exorsexism (sexism against nonbinary people), and intersexism (sexism against intersex people). These are real, harmful forces in our community. They deserve to be flagged—not shielded.

Trans women are valid. Trans men are valid. Trans nonbinary people are valid. Trans intersex people are valid. If your plug-in claims to protect gender-expansive people, then it must protect all of us.

Until then, I recommend uninstalling Shinigami Eyes—or, at the very least, disregarding the red and green tags and manually correcting false reports. As it currently functions, it no longer serves the community it once aimed to defend.

apparently intersex people fucking existing is dangerous to trans people but terfs are just fine 💀💀💀💀💀

I wish I wasn't having to write this review, but the recent trend in this extension's highlights is pretty clear. It's no longer reliable and frequently flags explicitly pro-LGBT sources/sites as red and notably TERF-y sources as green. Terrible loss for anyone who used it in years past.

Used to be a great tool, but now it's just used by the people who run it to flag people who disagree with what being trans "should" look like- such as targeting trans men who speak out about their experiences instead of shutting up and suffering in silence.

This app was one I used to use all the time, Particularly on sites like YouTube and such where I didn't want to give advertising money to transphobes. However, this app is now being used as a weapon for lateral aggression by people who want to erase trans men and our experiences, and I can no longer support it in good conscience until something is fixed. Trans men get flagged red for talking about the transphobia we face as men, because people don't like it when marginalized people mention situations where intersectional struggles seem to erase (often conditional in these specific cases and that's why it is able to be taken away) privilege, and that isn't okay.

I do not recommend. It marks outright TERFs and radfems as green, and transmascs/men, nonbinary people, and intersex people as red.

used to be useful but turned into hot garbage recently. have seen straight up radfems, gendercrits, transphobes, etc marked green and transmasculine, nonbinary, and intersex people marked red for having the wrong discourse opinions lol.

This used to be an extension that did what it claimed to do, but now it marks transmen and mascs and intersex people as red (unsafe), while marking people who spew the most VILE hatred towards them as green (safe). Whoever mods the extension should be ashamed.

I like the concept of this add-on. Marking people who are transphobic, and marking people who are "safe" for trans people. I used it for a whole year and felt a little safer on the internet because of it. But unfortunately, it seems like there's a bias at play.

Quite a few trans positive people are marked red seemingly because they don't subscribe to a specific set of ideas (which seems to be a specific kind of radical feminism?), including trans men talking about the unique oppression they face. And some people (mostly trans women in my experience) are marked as green even though they're mean to trans people who aren't like them or don't think like them.

It makes me sad to see this add-on used for bullying and infighting when it should be about who's marked as an actual threat to the trans community and who's safe to be around trans people in general.

So cool that my friends are getting marked as transphobic because of petty discourse while openly transphobic accounts are out here being marked as trans friendly thank you!!!!

I'm a trans person who has been dedicating years of my time to making a website from scratch called thetransgenderdictionary.com where I compile resources and information for all trans and trans-adjacent people and this extension marked it as transphobic lol this thing is a joke.