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[–]EzukiRaen 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I was gonna say this wouldn't work but, after a quick google search, I think this could work. R/biologicallesbians was not transphobic by any means but, any story about r/BL will have the sub labelled as a TERF sub. AfterEllen's already been branded a "TERF" website. I don't think another story that would have them labelled "TERF" would phase them. The CEO of the site even leaned into it and called herself "the Terf-in-Chief of AfterEllen".

If you gather together any screenshots or archived pages of r/BL before the ban (this includes the sub rules and anything that clearly stated that: tran women were welcome but, the sub's focus was to be on "cis" women), screenshots or pages of people calling it a hate sub, and write a compelling cover letter expressing why you think AfterEllen should write an article about it, then this could work.

You could probably do that now actually. Make another post titled something like "R/BL Data Compilation for AfterEllen". This way, anyone who has any additional information or anyone who wants to help, has a place to go/send their info. Everyone else would be able to look over things if they want and give their two cents on if they think anything is necessary, unecessary, missing, or complete.

Additional info: If you want to show the hypocrisy on reddit you should also get information on the subs that were banned vs the ones that are still up. I also recommend getting statements from the mods of r/TL and r/BL, if you can, to prove that these two subs were made independently from one another and not an attempt at ban evasion.

[–]reluctant_commenter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

These are some great ideas and I'd definitely be interested in that sort of post.