Subscription based – GENDR Community Review

This app is not free. This app is not even reasonably priced. It's a subscription based service, so you have to pay $5 every month or $30 every year to even sign up. There isn't even any way to see what the app is like before you buy. You're betting on people being there when you buy, but who knows if they'll be there and who knows if they're people you want to be around. I could justify $5 one time. I might even be able to justify $30 one time. But I can't justify a subscription. I can't guarantee I'll have $5 extra every month. Trans and gender nonconforming people experience more financial problems than the average person. Transition is expensive, new clothing is expensive, hormones are expensive, surgery is expensive, losing your job and being unable to find a new one is expensive. That's not even taking into account that many many of the trans people looking for an online community are very young and don't have parental support or any income. Because of the subscription based service, I also doubt many people are going to be on there. Even if they can afford it, it's prohibitive. If there were no ongoing charges they may have more trolls, but they'd at least have more people. With the rarity of people like us, is it really wise and realistic to exclude anyone who lives paycheck to paycheck or without consistent income? I think this is a way to extort money out of an already vulnerable subset of the population.
Review by midnafanatic on GENDR Community.