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Twitter suspends GOP Rep. Banks for misgendering trans health official
The Hill ^ | 10/24/21 03:10 PM EDT | BY CAROLINE VAKIL

Posted on 10/24/2021 7:19:00 PM PDT by RandFan

Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) said Saturday that his official Twitter account had been suspended over a post he made about Department of Health and Human Services assistant secretary for health Rachel Levine, who is transgender.

According to a screenshot posted of the tweet, Banks said “the title of first female four-star officer gets taken by a man,” a reference to Levine, who became the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps' first openly transgender four-star officer.

“The account referenced has been temporarily locked for violating our Hateful Conduct Policy. The account owner is required to delete the violative Tweet before regaining access to their account,” a Twitter spokesperson told The Hill in a statement.

According to Twitter’s hateful conduct policy, hateful conduct can include “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.”

Banks stood by his decision to issue the tweet. In a statement issued through Twitter on Saturday from his personal account, he said, “My tweet was a statement of fact. Big Tech doesn’t have to agree with me, but they shouldn’t be able to cancel me. If they silence me, they will silence you.”

Banks used his Twitter suspension as momentum for Republicans in the 2022 midterms, saying that “when Republicans take back the House next year, we must restore honesty to our public forums and hold Big Tech accountable.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: dudeinadress; genderdysphoria; jimbanks; levine; representative; simplesearch; transgender; twitter; wrongsex; xyxx
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1 posted on 10/24/2021 7:19:00 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

It’s only true. Levine is a man.


2 posted on 10/24/2021 7:19:54 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: RandFan

If they can get you to acquiesce to gender dystopia, they can get you to acquiesce to anything.


3 posted on 10/24/2021 7:20:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: RandFan

Truth is Hate.


4 posted on 10/24/2021 7:20:22 PM PDT by _longranger81
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To: RandFan

Never succumb to the lying language of the left. They are Marxists, and the only approach they use is deception.

Rep. Banks did not “misgender” anyone. In fact, he correctly identified the gender of the person involved.


5 posted on 10/24/2021 7:20:49 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Tax-chick

You wouldn’t last 5 minutes on twitter!


6 posted on 10/24/2021 7:21:10 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

He didn’t “misgender” anything.

L


7 posted on 10/24/2021 7:21:49 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: RandFan

Truth is not hateful.


8 posted on 10/24/2021 7:21:54 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: RandFan

Is twitter ever hacked? Man, it would be great to see that sewer get taken down.


9 posted on 10/24/2021 7:25:02 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth)
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To: RandFan

Every red state needs to “suspend” twitter for election interference. That would put a major dent in their ad revenue.


10 posted on 10/24/2021 7:25:52 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Tax-chick

That pervert is still just a dude in a dress.


11 posted on 10/24/2021 7:27:56 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (The democRATS are not looking to govern, they intend to RULE.)
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To: RandFan

Since I’ve never spent 5 minutes on Twitter, it’s all good.


12 posted on 10/24/2021 7:29:24 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: Ouderkirk

An ugly dude.


13 posted on 10/24/2021 7:29:42 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: RandFan

The feminists eked out space and spaces for women, and now only the TERFeminists are fighting back.

And every time conservatives in the past said, this will lead to..., they were accused of employing the slippery slope fallacy while at the same time leftists use the very worst forecasts as their standards.

Relativity socks.


14 posted on 10/24/2021 7:29:43 PM PDT by Chicory
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15 posted on 10/24/2021 7:36:23 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Trans Nazis run the Twittsewer.


16 posted on 10/24/2021 7:46:28 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: RandFan

Dick(less) Levine.


17 posted on 10/24/2021 7:47:13 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: RandFan

Twitter suspends almost everyone who isn’t woke. The place is a graveyard.


18 posted on 10/24/2021 7:47:47 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: RandFan

These people are play acting. That’s all it is, playing a role.


19 posted on 10/24/2021 7:48:06 PM PDT by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: lodi90
"Every red state needs to “suspend” twitter for election interference. That would put a major dent in their ad revenue."

Why not sue the for in-kind campaign contributions? The suits might not go anywhere but Twitter will still have cost of defending. The should face billions in direct legal costs and liabilities.

The problem with this scenario is the Republicans, who are, if not traitorous backstabbers, worthless.
20 posted on 10/24/2021 7:51:28 PM PDT by KamperKen
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