Twitter has ended its policy of accusing users of harassment if they refer to a gender-confused person’s biological sex or ‘pre-transition’ name.
In 2018, Twitter amended its Hateful Conduct Policy to prohibit content that allegedly “intends to degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.”
It has now removed the references to ‘misgendering’ and ‘deadnaming’, which had been criticised for stifling free speech.
Biology
Previously, if a user was deemed to have used the biological sex or pre-transition name of a gender-confused person, Twitter could have limited or removed their tweets, or even suspended their account.
Twitter has not announced its removal of the controversial wording, but it was no longer present following an update to the Hateful Conduct Policy introducing warning labels for tweets deemed to “potentially” violate the rules.
LGBT activist group GLAAD claimed the removal of the wording “is the latest example of just how unsafe the company is for users and advertisers alike” at a time when “anti-transgender rhetoric online is leading to real world discrimination and violence”.
Last month, it was revealed that Google’s artificial intelligence app is telling users that puberty blockers are “very beneficial” for children and the word ‘woman’ can refer to biological men.
Bard, an experimental chatbot, showed apparent bias when asked a series of questions on transgender ideology.
Google said the app is under development and admits that it “may give inaccurate or inappropriate responses”.
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