Wed Apr 19, 2023 – 5:14 pm EDTWed Apr 19, 2023 – 5:34 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Twitter has removed its policy defining the use of biologically accurate language to describe “transgender” people as “hateful conduct,” in the latest of current owner Elon Musk’s efforts to transform the platform.
In October 2018, the previous management of the social network amended its Hateful Conduct Policy to “prohibit targeting individuals with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category,” including “targeted misgendering or deadnaming” of people who identify as “transgender.” Punishment ranged from being asked to remove “violating content” and a “period of time in read-only mode before [violators] can Tweet again,” to “permanent account suspension” for repeat violations.
“Deadnaming” refers to calling someone by his or her given legal name rather than a new opposite-sex name, such as Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner or Richard “Rachel” Levine.
The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Twitter, which tech mogul Musk purchased last year with the stated goal of making it more friendly to free expression and differing viewpoints, has now quietly removed the deadnaming language, as well as
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