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Twitter updates terms of service to protect against transphobia
Twitter has added greater protection to its terms of service for trans people. To protect against deadnaming and misgendering, among other abuses, Twitter banned “targeting individuals with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanise, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category.” If a user deliberately misgenders of deadnames someone, they can be reported and banned from Twitter.
Advocates including Mermaids, a gender-diverse charity, and Paris Lees, an author, have been commending Twitter on the pro-trans move. “About time! Twitter should be a safe space for everyone,” Lees tweeted. Twitter’s new terms also take into consideration research that marginalized groups including women, people of color, and LGBT people have been targeted with more abuse online than other groups.
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