Alex Wong / Getty Images fileeTwitter suspended the account of Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., on Saturday after he intentionally misgendered a senior Health and Human Services official, Dr. Rachel Levine, the first transgender person to hold an office that requires Senate confirmation.
Twitter said the comment violated its hateful conduct policy, which prohibits the “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.”
NBCOUT Good, make it permanent. Congresspersons should be held to a higher standard.
NBCOUT Why are all republicans so mean that can’t respect a human being and be nice to each other? What makes them think that being a “conservative” is a synonym of being a total bully?
NBCOUT That certainly resembles a mug shot. Perhaps it should be.
NBCOUT That is a very low life thing to do. That is a man who does not deserve to represent anyone in Congress.
NBCOUT He oughta be censured for his actions.
NBCOUT Cancel culture at work. The minority control this country and it disgusts me
NBCOUT You can bank on Jim.
NBCOUT Banks is having a great year: -Supported Jan 6 insurrection attempt - Pretended, in writing, to be a ranking member of the 1/6 committee from which he was pulled so he could see evidence against himself. - Misgendered a respected cabinet member. Indiana must be proud.
NBCOUT TwitterSupport jack verified - why haven’t you suspended all of the traitor accounts? What side of Democracy are you on? POTUS SpeakerPelosi GOPLeader SenSchumer LeaderMcConnell - stand up! Twitter keeps supporting traitors on their platform. Speak out!
NBCOUT They don’t care, what do you think Trumps new network “Truth Social” is going to be doing if they allow it, they will all be in there saying racist crap, and talking about different genders like there a joke.
NBCOUT YES!
NBCOUT I don't understand why some folks feel so threatened by trans people.
NBCOUT But they didn't suspend his personal account whee he continues to spew his homophobic hate. Shame on you Twitter.
NBCOUT Great!!!!
NBCOUT 👏👏👏👺👏👏
NBCOUT Twitter only function is entertainment and for people that fabricates emotional drama. Nothing more and nothing less.
NBCOUT 1000 yrs from now if the Sec. Of Health was dug up and her/his DNA was tested, he would be gendered as male. When your beliefs go against science, you don't change science, you change your beliefs. Ppl misgender themselves.
NBCOUT The WORST people.
NBCOUT RepJimBanks douchebag
NBCOUT Show me his chromosome passport
NBCOUT Awe, he hurt its feelings. Bless its heart.
NBCOUT Is it ok to call it an abomination?
NBCOUT Hoosiers, this who you want to represent you. RepJimBanks disrespects Assistant Secretary Levine. He should never be an elected official again. This shows who he really is on the inside, and it isn't good.
NBCOUT Twitter really should block the accounts of all those officials and big names that support Trump. Bannon, Cruz, Taylor Green, Gaetz etc. Their crimes against democracy are far more dangerous than misgendering as bad as that is.
NBCOUT
NBCOUT 'Gender identity' was a term invented by this guy.
NBCOUT As we all know, recent situations have shown that interventions, even out of the most well-intentional kindness, can usually fail our best expectations
NBCOUT I wish China would have read this article BEFORE firing their hypersonic missile. They need to be fearful of our wokeness and our ability to cancel culture their ass if they don’t use our individual preferring pronouns!
NBCOUT But we're not positive that actions against such a regime will lead to better circumstances.
NBCOUT Dear Twitter, news orgs, & the world: lots of people (including intersectional brown ones like myself - so be careful about suspending accts) would like to know your functional definitions of 'woman/women' & 'female.' Marginalized & oppressed groups await your response.
NBCOUT so next time dealing with a dictatorship I hope you use some wisdom concerning any modern state which rules in an ancient way you can say this: we don't seek the removal of his government, though we do not agree with the way he rules
NBCOUT
NBCOUT He’s not wrong about him.
NBCOUT LMAO
NBCOUT It's like they don't understand what Terms of Service are.
NBCOUT most Chinese think of western values as 'equal to chaos' I know they are wrong, but I cannot change them to be 'not so wrong'
NBCOUT What exavtly did he do wrong?
NBCOUT 'Twitter user suspended after violating Terms of Service' Fixed it for you.
NBCOUT Good.
NBCOUT Rachel is a man
NBCOUT Misgendered? Dna doesn't change
NBCOUT Get over it! Just because you say it’s something, doesn’t make it so! I expect to be called Pooh Bear, doesn’t mean I am!
NBCOUT Wait he didn't misgendwr her I thought he called her a c!t
NBCOUT Huhhhhhh?
NBCOUT “Misgendered” a dude born with a dick and whose DNA still shows he’s a man…
NBCOUT Please define “misgendered”, did Rep. Banks claim a man was a woman or did he claim a woman was a man?
NBCOUT Oh look, the TERFs are being insufferable again. I'm not saying Banks is a feminist in any way though.
NBCOUT Looks like a W for the transgender community.
NBCOUT So if I say Rachel Levine is a man, my account will be suspended? That's seriously where we're at?
NBCOUT Soooo, Twitter suspends accounts because of “misgendering”, but allow the taliban to use the platform? You know, the terrorists that have killed thousands of Americans. My brothers, and sisters in arms. Someone tell me how this is ok, please.
NBCOUT How many of the accounts who are echoing and amplifying the Congressman's comment will have their accounts suspended jack
NBCOUT This is so backwards LMFAO. Why we pandering to absolute minorities. No one cares about pro-nouns in the real world
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: Newsweek - 🏆 468. / 52 Read more »
Source: NYMag - 🏆 111. / 63 Read more »
Source: Newsweek - 🏆 468. / 52 Read more »
Source: YahooNews - 🏆 380. / 59 Read more »
Source: Reuters - 🏆 2. / 97 Read more »