“Twitter has prohibited misgendering and deadnaming on its platform in an effort to curtail anti-trans abuse.
The social media company has changed its rules to ban the practices and has warned that any user who deliberately targets a trans person in these ways may face permanent suspension.
These offensive techniques—which involve using the wrong gender to refer to a trans person or a trans person’s old name—are often used on Twitter to insult and erase trans people’s identities and right to exist.”
“We recognise that if people experience abuse on Twitter, it can jeopardise their ability to express themselves”
— Twitter’s new terms of service
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Twitter bans misgendering and deadnaming in pro-trans move
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