Here's a copy of my post without the fucking redacted parts:
Some of you may be new, or recently returning to this sub. As such, you may be forgetting exactly how bad Reddit is, but I'm happy to use this mass shooting as a teachable moment. I assure you, over the past several years, we have seen all of these removals personally:
Since the shooter is transgender, comment and post removals will take place on this sub in all of the following situations:
The shooter must not be "traditionally gendered". That is considered an attack on an identity group. If you do not know the gender of the shooter, you may refer to them as 'the shooter', or 'individual' or by their last name.
The shooter is not to be called ugly. That is considered an attack on an identity group. No transgender person is allowed to be called ugly or unattractive on Reddit.
THE SECRET RULE IS NOW IN EFFECT. The shooter is not to be identified as having ANY [mental illness]. [This includes depression, suicidal ideation, gender dysphoria, none of them]. That is considered an attack on an identity group. This includes statements from the shooter themselves. By Reddit's rules, the shooter is wrong to claim that they [are mentally ill], based on their gender identity.
Calling for the death penalty for mass shooters is considered a call to violence. Death penalty advocacy of any kind is considered a call to violence.
Celebrating the death of the mass shooter is considered "grave dancing" which is considered glorification of violence.
Many people misunderstand Rule 1: This rule explicitly allows for identity based attacks on non-vulnerable demographics such as men, heterosexuals, Christians, 'cisgenders', etc. That being said, this subreddit will remove comments that we consider to be identity based attacks on those groups, whether or not Reddit sees those groups as deserving of hate. We consider that a violation of our rules, as we do not believe an entire demographic should be excluded from universal protections because Reddit deems them to be morally inferior.
Sorry, u/AntonioOfVenice , it looks like they really DID remove you for saying that we had to remove comments that said Post-Ellen Paige had depression.
This is the comment they removed for "harassment"
Comment Removed: You are not allowed to allege that any transgender has ever had any mental illness on Reddit.
What is the secret rule?
You can't identify a transgender person as having any mental illness. This includes depression and gender dysphoria.
It's a secret because saying the rule out loud is considered harassment... somehow.
The rule originally started because someone said something akin to, "I think Elliot Paige has depression", and this was removed as an attack on an identity group. Not 'transgenders have depression'. Not 'transgenders have a mental illness'. Just 'politically-correct-gendering person has an mental illness that is unrelated to transgenderism'.
Blew our fucking mind. Thought it was a fluke, until we saw that it happened several times in the thread. People speculated that she had something, and wasn't related to gender dysphoria, and bans were handed out by the admins.
We ran with that for (what must have been 6 months to a year), and then AOV got banned for saying (in a fairly crude way) that we can't say that transgenders can have mental illnesses.
Once he was banned for that, he was yeeted permanently.
I invented "THE SECRET RULE" concept to show that the rule exists, even though I can't actually tell people what it is, and I still have to enforce it.
We thought, eventually, it was maybe just because he worded it in a crude way; but it turns out that it wasn't since they threatened me over it.
Does Twitter also have THE SECRET RULE? This guy just got suspended for pointing out how autistic kids are groomed by transgender activists online :
https://twitter.com/eoinlenihan/status/1641187135788310529?s=21
If these kids had any real life friends then someone would tell them - “you’re never going to look like the opposite sex.”
Not that I know of.
You can’t say that trans people are mentally ill, or that they have any sort of mental illness. You basically can’t criticize trans people at all by name.