Twitter has suspended a Christian
magazine’s account for reporting that one
of President Joe Biden’s nominees is a
man who believes he’s a woman.
The Daily Citizen , a publication of the
Colorado Springs-based Focus on the
Family, tweeted on Jan. 19 that Biden’s
nominee for assistant secretary of health,
Rachel Levine, “is a transgender woman,
that is, a man who believes he is a
woman,” along with a link to an article
about the nomination.
As a result, the social media giant locked
the magazine out of its account, informing
the publication that the tweet violated
Twitter’s user rules forbidding “hateful
conduct.”
The Daily Citizen appealed the suspension
but was informed that its account will
remain locked until it deletes the tweet.
Twitter wrote in a subsequent email to the
magazine: “Hi The Daily Citizen, your
account, @FocusCitizen has been locked
for violating the Twitter Rules. Specifically
for: Violating our rules against hateful
conduct. You may not promote violence
against, threaten, or harass other people on
the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin,
sexual orientation, gender, gender identity,
religious affiliation, age, disability, or
serious disease.
“Please note that repeated violations may
lead to a permanent suspension of your
account,” the email said. “Proceed to
Twitter now to fix the issue with your
account.”
The Daily Citizen said in its reply to Twitter
that numerous media outlets have reported
on the nomination and written in their
articles that Levine was born male and
remains a man who believes he is female.
Levine has undergone elective cosmetic
surgery and taken cross-sex hormones in
an attempt to look more like a woman
physically.
The magazine has insisted that it never
promoted violence and rejected Twitter’s
claims that it violated its rules.
“As a Christian organization, we would
never do so. We simply explained to our
readers the appointment and defined what
transgender women are — those born male
who believe they are a woman, regardless
of whether they have had opposite-sex
hormones or surgeries.
“We believe Twitter’s blocking of this tweet
and lockdown of our account discriminates
against Focus on the Family’s The Daily
Citizen on the basis of our religious
affiliation.”
Twitter has persisted in its insistence that
the publication violated its user rules and
rejected the publication’s appeal. The
platform said the ban would not be
overturned.
Big Tech’s censorship of voices who state
biological facts in the context of
transgender issues and policies has not
been limited to religious or philosophically
conservative accounts on the platform.
In November 2018, Twitter updated its
policies to prohibit users from tweeting the
birth names of trans-identifying people —
which transgender activists refer to as
“dead-naming” — or from using biologically
accurate pronouns when tweeting about
trans-identifying people.
Transgender advocates call the use of “he”
to describe a male who identifies as female
“misgendering.” Both dead-naming and
misgendering are akin to “abuse” and
“violence,” according to trans-activists.
For example, Twitter permanently booted
radical feminist journalist Meghan Murphy
from the platform after she tweeted that
“men aren’t women.” Twitter took this
action days before it instituted its trans-
activist policy.
Murphy wrote in an editorial at the time
that “while Twitter knowingly permits
graphic pornography and death threats on
the platform (I have reported countless
violent threats, the vast majority of which
have gone unaddressed), they won’t allow
me to state very basic facts, such as ‘men
aren’t women.'”
“This is hardly an abhorrent thing to say,
nor should it be considered ‘hateful’ to ask
questions about the notion that people can
change sex, or ask for explanations about
transgender ideology,” she said.
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