X reinstates policy against misgendering & deadnaming

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X reinstates policy against misgendering & deadnaming

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/x-reinstates-policy-against-misgendering-deadnaming/ar-BB1jipXR?ocid=windirect&cvid=d674bb5405484cbab88bd9af74f967e6&ei=44

Story by Hamid Ganji (4 March 2024)

X is again making it illegal for users to misgender and deadname other users on the platform. The policy was dropped last year, but X is reinstating it again following numerous criticisms.

As Ars Technica reports, in April last year, X (called Twitter back then) updated its abuse and harassment policy to allow for misgendering and deadnaming. The policy was adopted in the pre-Musk era in 2018. But the billionaire later suggested that his tweets might violate the policy.

Meanwhile, the latest update to X's policy in January indicates that the company is again banning users from misgendering and deadnaming transgender people and other members of the LGBTQ+ community under the newly-added "Use of Prior Names and Pronouns" section.

As the new policy reads, X will "reduce the visibility of posts that purposefully use different pronouns to address someone other than what that person uses for themselves, or that use a previous name that someone no longer goes by as part of their transition."

Posts that contain misgendering and deadnaming will be removed from search results, timelines, trends, and notifications. Additionally, no ads will be shown adjacent to them.