Tue Oct 26, 2021 – 7:27 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Social media giant Twitter locked the congressional account of Republican Rep. Jim Banks of Ohio over the weekend for accurately referring to top Biden administration health official Richard “Rachel” Levine as a man.
Levine, the “transgender” Assistant Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary, was promoted to the rank of four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) last week, sparking various adoring headlines in the mainstream press about the “historic” nature of the promotion.
“The title of first female four-star officer gets taken by a man,” Banks lamented in a tweet, for which Twitter suspended him for allegedly violating its “Hateful Conduct Policy’s” prohibition on “targeted misgendering” of “transgender individuals.” That tweet has since been removed; another tweet by Banks expressing similar sentiments remains live:
Calling someone that was born and lived as a man for 54 years the first “female” four-star officer is an insult to every little girl who dreams of breaking glass ceilings one day. https://t.co/bHKmJbE6cA
— Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) October 19, 2021
“My tweet was a statement of fact,” Banks said Saturday. “Big Tech doesn’t have to agree
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