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by jtylr 1916 days ago
I just wonder why nobody thought to Google her name between the 9th March (when "extra protections" were first put in place) and now.
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They probably did but didn't want to be the one to say anything at the risk of being accused of transphobia.
That feels like a bold and possibly dangerous thing to say without evidence.
The former Reddit employee in question accused the Green Party in the UK of transphobia, after they discovered she hired her own father as an election consultant, under an alias. At the time, he had been charged with rape and child abuse, and has since been convicted.

This is all public information.

Doesn't seem like the accusation stuck. And it would be very easy to point out she did it before.

  Doesn't seem like the accusation stuck.
Are you unclear on the definition of "convicted"?
Read their first sentence again.
How is it bold and dangerous? A decent chunk of people accused any person who criticized this person as transphobic. This has happened with other LGBT people so there is a history of this happening in the past.