Twitter Imposes Erratic Penalties on Lawmakers, Journalists Calling Transgender Official Male, by Greg Piper

Twitter is applying its policies inconsistently to recent tweets by a range of conservative lawmakers, media sites and activists referring to transgender Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine by sex instead of gender identity.

The inconsistencies are evident even between members of Congress and within their own accounts.

Rep. Jim Banks, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, has been locked out of his official account since at least Saturday for the “hateful conduct” of calling Levine a “man.” He was quote-tweeting U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who dubbed Levine “the first female four-star officer to serve in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.” …

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