Twitter Removes Policy Against Deadnaming Transgender People
April 19, 2023 9:18AM PDT
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter has quietly removed a policy against the “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.”
The move is raising concerns that the Elon Musk-owned platform is becoming less safe for marginalized groups.
Twitter enacted the policy against deadnaming, or using a transgender person’s name before they transitioned, as well as purposefully using the wrong gender for someone as a form of harassment, in 2018.
TikTok and Meta both have similar policies on the books.
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