

Your gender or sexual orientation doesn’t invalidate your opinion (nor validate it).
That’s correct but not the full picture.
What matters here is more than just the validity of the opinion; it’s also weighting the impact of a potential ban, when you don’t really know if it’s justified or not. Both a false positive (unjust ban) and a false negative (not banned when they should) are bad, but which is worse? This depends on the gravity of the reason (gatekeeping vs. bigotry) but also your target audience (gender diverse people vs. someone who is not gender diverse).
Also note that Blahaj admins are not from USA, they’re from Australia. I’m not from USA either (I’m from South America.) I’m not sure on how much siege mentality applies in either case.
Fixed.