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https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/julie-bindel Coffee House Julie Bindel Reddit, Aimee Challenor and a disturbing insight into the  trans debate 26 March 2021, 4:23pm Green party co-leader Jonathan Bartley with Aimee Challenor (Getty images) Text Comments Aimee Knight, previously known as Aimee Challenor,  has been sacked  by Reddit. But while Challenor has now gone, her reappearance in the headlines — and the way in which Reddit mishandled this story — is a revealing and disturbing insight into the transgender debate. It all began with an  article  I wrote for these pages on Green party gender madness in which I briefly mentioned Challenor’s suspension from the party in 2018. It was a scandal that Challenor did not wish to see dragged up. When a moderator of the popular UK politics community on Reddit shared that article, mentioning Challenor by name, the post was removed and the moderator banned. Had Challenor persuaded the powers that be at Reddit to prevent users from

Steerpike Is Reddit censoring The Spectator? (Photo by iStock) as 'the front page of the internet', has been accused of blocking  Spectator  articles. Earlier this week, the most popular UK politics page was suspended from public view and users who posted a link to a  Spectator  article were blocked. The article in question mentions one Aimee Challenor, a former ‘rising star’ of the Green party and transgender activist, who left the party in disgrace after she appointed her father — a violent paedophile — as her election agent. According to the moderators on the Reddit group r/UKPolitics, Aimee has since been hired by the tech firm, which is now zealously blocking content about her. One Redditor who posted a  Spectator  article containing a brief mention of Challenor found themselves mysteriously 'suspended’ from Reddit. That user was subsequently reinstated after r/UKPolitics raised concerns with the tech company. As the moderators put it, 'It later became apparent tha