Copy symlink AND where it points to using rsync

It doesn't need to be done by rsync, but it would be nice not have to write a script to do this, and rsync is very close to what I want.

rsync -a (or -l) can preserve symlinks, and -L can dereference symlinks and copy it as if it is normal file/dir. However, is it possible to keep the symlink, and also copy the files/directories the links points to?

Here's an example. Say we have this folder hierarchy:

dirA/link_to_file -> ../dirB/file
dirA/link_to_dir -> ../dirC
dirB/file
dirB/not_this_file
dirC/file
dirC/file2
dirD/others

and when I do rsync -aR dirA dest (or something else), I'd like to have exactly these appear in dest:

dirA/link_to_file -> ../dirB/file
dirA/link_to_dir -> ../dirC
dirB/file
dirC/file
dirC/file2

Is this possible with rsync? Thank you.

Let's assume symlinks having absolute path or pointing to outside the source directory can be ignored.