Posted on 03/18/2022 1:20:23 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Some are accusing Twitter of applying its policy on hateful conduct unequally after it allowed a tweet from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that intentionally misgendered Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine to remain on its platform.
On Sunday, USA Today honored Levine, the first openly transgender Senate-confirmed federal official, as one of its “women of the year.”
In a tweet Thursday, Paxton shared an image of Levine from the USA Today feature and called her “a man.” Intentionally misgendering a transgender person, meaning referring to them with the wrong pronouns or by their birth gender, is offensive, and research has shown that it can have negative mental health effects on trans people.
Users reported the tweet, but rather than removing it or suspending Paxton’s account, Twitter flagged the tweet and made it optional for people to view it in their feeds because it said the tweet is in the public’s interest.
In a statement via email, a spokesperson for Twitter said the platform placed a public interest notice on the tweet “as it violates our hateful conduct policy.”
At least one national LGBTQ advocacy group has condemned Twitter’s decision. Sarah Kate Ellis, CEO and president of GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy group, said that simply restricting harmful content “is not enough.”
“Platforming harmful anti-trans rhetoric is not in the public’s interest,” she said in an emailed statement. “Social media companies have a responsibility to remove harmful anti-trans content that violates their own policies. As a four-star admiral and Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary, Dr. Levine is beyond worthy of USA Today’s Women of the Year list, and she, like any human being, is worthy of respect.”
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misgendering a transgender person, meaning referring to them with the wrong pronouns or by their birth gender, is offensive
Given that they are requesting the wrong pronouns, someone is going to get offended.
That said, I imagine that in Texas, it will not loose you votes.
The point, it is ignored... Woosh.
That’s a man, baby. Keep repeating it.
“...hateful”
“...hateful”
No… no he didn’t.
“It.”
“...Users reported the tweet, but rather than removing it or suspending Paxton’s account...”
Thus encouraging the heckler’s veto.
Richard Levine aka Rachel had a penis until he cut it off himself because he couldn’t find a doctor who would do it.
Not accepting your own biological reality is the definition of mental illness.
Find the right pronoun. Combine “she” and “it”.
It’s offensive he wants to be called a “woman” and that so many go along with the mental case.
He’s a “he!”
I thought “misgender” had to do with accidental scalpel strokes.
Like if your surgeon sneezes while about to make the first cut during a hernia repair.
The correct pronoun is “It” or “Thing”.
HE IS A MAN and already has and has had severe Mental Problems for a long time, that’s why HE thinks HE is a girl
Being forced to refer to a man as a woman or a woman as a man can have harmful negative effects on the mental state of sane individuals.
So who is looking out for us?
It’s still a dude in a dress
If I don’t acknowledge that the late John F Nash was the Emperor of Antartica am I misrrepresenting him also ?
Go to the middle of this article. (Has excerpts from the book “A Beautiful Mind”.)
Someone tell me what’s the difference between Nash’s delusion and this Levine character’s current on-going delusion?
No. That’s a man.
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