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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“Intentionally misgendering a transgender person is offensive and research has shown that it can have negative mental health effects on trans people.”
What about us NORMALS that have to put up with this utterly ridiculous lie? 99% of the American people suffer “negative health effects” from this constant, bald-faced lie.
How many fingers am I holding up Winston ? What gender is Secretary Levine Mr Paxton?
No.
He genders correctly.
It is Levine who is deluded.
Admiral? More like an able bodied semen in his rectal canal.
and a very ugly man at that ,LOL
He’s already mentally ill. So being misgendered will not make him any worse.
LIBTARDS and the mentally ill RATS (same?) get their panties in a twist because THE AG TOLD THE TRUTH!
Re. John F. Nash as Emperor of Antarctica. He doesn’t look like a penguin. LOL
He didn’t “misgender” Levine.
He spoke the truth.
When America was still America, if you called a guy a girl you would be in for some dental work.
Gads..... feel sorry for today’s youth with respect to the dating scene. Second base would certainly be an eyeopener.
“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.”
More crap made up out of thin air by experimental psychologists (A German Invention). It’s the psychologists making up all these sexual perversions. The “profession” needs to be banned from practicing. It is nothing but pseudoscientific charlatanism.
Forcing people to play along with whatever whim of the day and be chastised for not getting it right is offensive and a negative impact on their mental health. It's like the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland.
Grow up NBC.
A freak of nature...should be pickled at the Smithsonian.
Every cell in his body says he is a man.
When he dies his bones will declare that he is a man.
Reality does not play in the world of the delusional. It remains reality.
Well, technically, if he cuts the beans off with the frank, then he's a eunuch. Call him that.
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