Twitter bans misgendering and deadnaming in pro-trans move

profeminist:

“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

Read the full piece here

Twitter bans misgendering and deadnaming in pro-trans move

locquiescent:

nonhoration:

dingdongyouarewrong:

chuck tingle, two time hugo award nominee and author of such erotica classics as ‘space raptor butt invasion’, ‘i’m gay for my living billionaire jet plane’, ‘bigfoot pirates haunt my balls’, and ‘there’s a bitcoin in my butt and he’s handsome’ just published a short story about the importance of consent and how it’s okay to have a loving relationship without sex if you want to??? 

that’s lovely on its own but it’s also called ‘not pounded in the butt by anything and that’s okay’, which is my favourite book title ever

Amazing.

also this is the cover