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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im so confused
i thought when someone had a mental illness(mind and reality do not intersect) the approved therapy would be to help them accept reality not foster the delusion
are there any other mental illnesses where the approved therapy is to foster and celebrate the delusion?
if someone thinks they are napoleon maybe everyone should be required to salute him and call him emperor?
Laura had a segment last night about the transgender swimmer winning the women’s championship. She had on a former champion swimmer who was livid over the injustice done to real women...but the female students can’t complain or they will suffer repercussions.
Yes- LIBERALISM.
/massive eyeroll
It’s a man, baby.
Also, even if you were a guy who thought you were a woman, why would you want to be such an ugly woman? He was probably an unattractive man, but now he’s ten times as ugly as a “woman.”
They really want “misgendering” to be a crime. They really think that fines and jail are appropriate for someone who speaks of someone with a pronoun that person doesn’t like.
I’m for jail time for journalists who think so.
It’s fing offense to try to force people to believe that a man can become a woman .
Completely offensive .
The prog got their inch.
An inch here, an inch there, pretty soon you are talking some real nutcases walking around demanding you call them normal.
He did his own noodle delete? What a sicko! Richard lopitoffofme Levin?
Oh yea, most beautiful woman ever and a 44 star admiral in the gay navy.
This is insanity run amuck!!
I do, however, believe in mandated adjectives. I now demand to be called "Magnificent SERKIT".This will be my standard response when pressed to declare my 'preferred pronoun'.
I will reject pronoun assignment and demand adjective assignment. I'm working on a verb, but I need to think that through.....
I do, however, believe in mandated adjectives. I now demand to be called "Magnificent SERKIT".This will be my standard response when pressed to declare my 'preferred pronoun'.
I will reject pronoun assignment and demand adjective assignment. I'm working on a verb, but I need to think that through.....
He called him a woman ?
“it can have negative mental health effects on trans people.”
I think they mean further negative mental health effects.
First you have to make sure George P Bush is dispatched in the runoff.
“is offensive”
So, the truth is offensive to NBC.
Do a crotch check.
LOL
Dude (does not) look like a lady!
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