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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Sue! Sue! Sue!!!!!
Speaking the Truth. Levine is an obese man with mental problems. Big mental problems.
“Misgendered”???
Seems he got it exactly right.
Sounds to me like Paxton got it right. 🤷🏻♀️
Being brow-beaten by the loony lefties to accept normalization of someone who is overboard sexually disoriented (i.e., mentally ill) ain’t something normal thinking people tolerate.
The Pa rumor which I have heard form people who know his family. Levine whacked off his own tallywhacker when his doctor refused to do it becasue of Levine’s mental problems.
Well Duh!
We use to put people like HIM in a mental health facility.......
....now we promote and honor him......
May God have mercy...how did we fall so low and so fast
I don’t give a crap about Richard Levine claiming to be a woman. His DNA says that he is a male and no amount of butt hurt will change that fact. Follow the science, right?
Good Lord, how did we arrive at this point?
I will vote for Attorney General Ken Paxton in November. This story changes nothing at all.
Well, yeah, technically, but even eunuchs aren’t as fleepingly nuts.
A male homosexual transvestite is still a man.
He genders correctly.
It is Levine who is deluded.
Exactly. Calling Rachel Levin a woman is to misgender him. He's XY and no inane statements to the contrary will change that.
Levine was fine with being called a man for the first 52 years of his life including having a wife and two children. Imagine how THEY feel when learning that the husband/father is suddenly declared a woman.
Oh dear. Is it offensive to label a pig a cow? Boys are not girls Not evah!
He has transitioned to an “it”.
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