Elon Musk’s platform X/Twitter has reinstated its woke rules against “misgendering” and “name-murdering” transgender people after broadly reversing them last year.
ars technica report That Added a new section explaining rules prohibiting “dead-naming” (referred to by LGBT extremists). A new “Using Old Name and Pronouns” section includes “reducing the visibility of posts” where X/Twitter misgenders a person or uses their old name instead of the new name adopted during the transition. It has been described as.
Consy Vasquez and Johnny Rozon, engineers at the Newport District Naval Undersea Warfare Center, discuss the importance of using the correct pronouns when you don’t know someone’s pronouns and using polite etiquette. Masu.Official U.S. Navy video by John Vannucci
Admiral Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, speaks at the Roundtable on Gender-affirming Care and Transgender Health in Miami, Wednesday, June 29, 2022. (Wilfried Lee/Associated Press)
The move comes after X/Twitter lifted its long-standing ban on deadnames and misgendering transgender users in April 2023. At the time, GLAAD chief executive Sarah Kate Ellis criticized the changes as “the latest example of how dangerous the company is to its users and users.” Advertisers as well,” under the ownership of Elon Musk, who has a history of liking and sharing anti-trans content.
Under the updated policy, X/Twitter will not hear directly from those who have been misgendered or deadnamed “given the complexity of determining whether such violations have occurred.” If you listen, you will take action. GLAAD Senior Director Jenny Olson told Ars that this places an unfair burden on targets to report their own abuse. However, she acknowledged that a clear policy against dead names and misgendering would be preferable to a vague policy where violators are unsure whether they are breaking the rules.
Libs of TikTok’s Chay Raichik questioned the change and asked X/Twitter owner Elon Musk to comment on the situation, but Musk said the policy was “repetitive and targeted against specific people.” The law applies only to “targeted harassment.”
This is repeated, targeted harassment of specific individuals.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 1, 2024
When a post is flagged for misgendering or a deadname, X/Twitter reduces the visibility of that post by removing it from search results, home timelines, trends, and notifications. It will also be ranked lower in the replies section and will only be visible on the poster’s profile. Additionally, no ads are displayed. This is likely aimed at preventing advertisers from pulling back, like the one X suffered last year amid a hate speech controversy.
Self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk is once again bending the knee to please woke advertisers and LGBT activists.
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Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering free speech and online censorship issues.
