Twitter has modified its “hateful conduct” guidelines, removing a policy that designated the targeted “misgendering” or “deadnaming” of transgender individuals as violent speech.
In 2018, the platform enacted a policy that labeled it a form of harassment when Twitter users refer to a transgender person by their biological sex or name—something known as misgendering and deadnaming.
Prior to the move, Twitter’s guidelines stated the following under the “Slurs and Tropes” subsection: “We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.”…