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I'm not sure if you are trolling, but the article wasn't "dead naming a trans woman". It was an article in a mainstream uk magazine about a uk political party w

by iams 6y ago

I'm not sure if you are trolling, but the article wasn't "dead naming a trans woman". It was an article in a mainstream uk magazine about a uk political party where her preferred name was mentioned

patmcc 6y 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.
- vultour 6y ago
  I skimmed both articles and have found no proof of this. Both say "she", "Ms", and the correct name.
  - patmcc 6y ago
    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-danger-of-transgender-politics 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)
    - vultour 6y ago
      Considering related threads are getting nuked all across Reddit I'm going to guess the article wasn't really the issue.
    - iams 6y ago
      This article was not involved, it was not linked to from reddit. I'm not sure how it's relevant to the situation
DanBC 6y ago
Anything written by the Spectator about trans people is hateful garbage. It's baffling that people on HN are so gullible.
DominikD 6y ago
Mainstream UK press has serious problem with TERFs, so my question was genuine: is my understanding correct, that the issue stems from someone linking to misgendering, dead naming article?
- easytiger 6y ago
  No. That is not correct. Someone posted an article discussing some issues around women's issues specifically apropos The Green party. Actually a good article. The article mentioned Aimee Challenor's name and the scandal around their deputy leadership bid. This happened to be posted to reddit. It was removed by admin and the poster (a mod) banned. No one knew why. Only when reddit made a statement to mods did it become clear that was the reason.

by iams 6y ago

I'm not sure if you are trolling, but the article wasn't "dead naming a trans woman". It was an article in a mainstream uk magazine about a uk political party where her preferred name was mentioned

patmcc 6y 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.

vultour 6y ago
I skimmed both articles and have found no proof of this. Both say "she", "Ms", and the correct name.
- patmcc 6y ago
  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-danger-of-transgender-politics 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)
  - vultour 6y ago
    Considering related threads are getting nuked all across Reddit I'm going to guess the article wasn't really the issue.
  - iams 6y ago
    This article was not involved, it was not linked to from reddit. I'm not sure how it's relevant to the situation

DanBC 6y ago

Anything written by the Spectator about trans people is hateful garbage. It's baffling that people on HN are so gullible.

DominikD 6y ago

Mainstream UK press has serious problem with TERFs, so my question was genuine: is my understanding correct, that the issue stems from someone linking to misgendering, dead naming article?

easytiger 6y ago
No. That is not correct. Someone posted an article discussing some issues around women's issues specifically apropos The Green party. Actually a good article. The article mentioned Aimee Challenor's name and the scandal around their deputy leadership bid. This happened to be posted to reddit. It was removed by admin and the poster (a mod) banned. No one knew why. Only when reddit made a statement to mods did it become clear that was the reason.