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by patmcc 1914 days ago
"Deadnaming" is explicitly using the birth/non-current name of a trans person. The article does that, and also uses "he" throughout. Both of those things are typically seen as quite offensive by trans people.

I don't think a site-wide ban of the person who posted the link is reasonable, but it is a shitty article.

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I skimmed both articles and have found no proof of this. Both say "she", "Ms", and the correct name.
That's true of the articles directly linked in the reddit post, but not the Spectator article (that was not linked to) - https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/aimee-challenor-and-the-... - that one. (Which is the link that apparently led to the banning of the person who posted it)
Considering related threads are getting nuked all across Reddit I'm going to guess the article wasn't really the issue.
This article was not involved, it was not linked to from reddit. I'm not sure how it's relevant to the situation