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The previous policy, enacted in 2018, specifically prohibited users from "targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals," which included using the wrong pronoun or a person's previous name. As of April 2023, the sentence regarding transgender individuals has been removed from the "Slurs and Tropes" category.
The previous statement from February read, "We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals."
The updated version has the same description without any mention of "misgendering" or "deadnaming" individuals identifying as transgender.
Prior to Twitter CEO Elon Musk's takeover, countless users were suspended for violating the platform's "hateful conduct policy" over their tweets regarding gender. The Babylon Bee, a satirical news site, was famously locked out of its Twitter account in March 2022 for posting an article that jokingly labeled Dr. Rachel Levine, the transgender Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the outlet's "Man of the Year."
The site then locked the account of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk for accurately pointing out that Levine, a biological male, fathered children and then "transitioned" into being a woman in 2014. He called out the feminists for showing no outrage about Levine being named USA Today's "Woman of the Year" in 2022.
The site then censored Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson for posting screenshots of the Babylon Bee and Kirk's posts, claiming he "violated the Twitter Rules." It also locked Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks' account for calling Levine a man.
The account of conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey was temporarily suspended by Twitter in August 2021 for calling a biologically male transgender weightlifter a man.
Reader Comments
Tongue in cheek comment, codis.
That's GOLD!
Albeit I wonder about Musk's future. Being in "team Trump" (as I call the anti-WEF part of the US "elite") comes with certain dangers. At the moment, not only Trump is under fire. Jamie Dimon, being on the same side, is now accused of relations to Epstein, coincidentally at the same time ...
Elon is somewhat confusing to me. He has all the hallmarks of controlled opposition but then still seems to somewhat go his own way. I remember seeing him on CNN before he was even famous picking up a Maclaren F1. Even before his hair transplant was taking hold lol. Trump seems to be cut from the same cloth, they both seem to be “for the people” but then their actions are sometimes questionable at best.
All part of the circus, I guess.
Charlie Horse Glad you liked it Charlie!
I never attacked anyone. Just pointed out the obvious, shared multiple science, peer reviewed and physician studies and some how, I'm [everything]phobic.
To cut me down to size
By telling dirty lies to my friends
But my own father
Said give her up, don't bother
The world isn't coming to an end
He said walk like a man
Talk like a man
Walk like a man my son
No woman's worth
Crawling on the earth
So walk like a man my son
Fine eyed baby
I don't mean maybe
We're gonna get along somehow
Soon you'll be crying
On 'count of all you're lying
Oh yeah, just look who's laughing now
I'm gonna walk like a man
Fast as I can
Walk like a man from you
I'll tell the world
Forget about it girl
And walk like a man from you