Transgender activists are outraged that Twitter has quietly removed restrictions on 'dead-naming' and misgendering people



Transgender activists and their allies are expressing outrage after restrictions on "dead-naming" and misgendering were deleted from Twitter's Terms of Service.

The policy was enacted in 2018 before tech billionaire Elon Musk bought the popular platform for $44 billion. On Sunday, Musk opined that declarations of preferred pronouns were "virtue-signaling" that could be used as a shield by bad people.

Two days later, the policy against misgendering was changed.

Sarah Kate Ellis, the president and CEO of GLAAD, told the Associated Press that the change in policy would lead to violence against transgender people.

“Twitter’s decision to covertly roll back its longtime policy is the latest example of just how unsafe the company is for users and advertisers alike,” said Ellis.

“This decision to roll back LGBTQ safety pulls Twitter even more out of step with TikTok, Pinterest, and Meta, which all maintain similar policies to protect their transgender users at a time when anti-transgender rhetoric online is leading to real-world discrimination and violence," she added.

Others attacked Twitter with their tweets.

"Twitter lifts it's policy on targeted misgendering and deadnaming and the freaks are out gleefully misgendering and deadnaming every prominent trans person as an achievement. It's not about speech, it's about bullies wanting to harass people because of who they are," said activist Alejandra Caraballo.

"Every decision Musk makes is bad for free speech, safety, business," tweeted attorney Nora Benavidez.

"This is absolutely exhausting. Every day something else happens to show just how much people despise trans people and don’t care about what happens to us and it’s really f***ing overwhelming and frightening," said a user who identifies as a bisexual.

At least one other account called the policy change a "genocidal move."

Some public schools have changed their policies to include dead-naming and misgendering as "slurs" and threatened to suspend students who refuse to follow the new rules.

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Tucker Carlson STUNNED when he hears what Ron DeSantis said to Libs of TikTok creator



On “The Rubin Report,” BlazeTV host Dave Rubin shared a clip of Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik telling Tucker Carlson about the stunning offer Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) made to her after she was doxxed and threatened.

"When I was doxxed, someone from Ron DeSantis' team called me ... and she said, 'The governor wanted me to give you a message. He said if you don't feel safe, you or your family, if you need a place to go to hide, to stay, you can come to the governor's mansion.' He said, 'We have a guest house for you, and you can come and stay as long as you need," Raichik said during an appearance on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Today."

"The governor of Florida did this?" asked a clearly stunned Carlson.

"Yes," Raichik confirmed. "I was almost in tears."

"And you were living in California?" Carlson asked, still agog.

"I [was] living in California and [DeSantis] took time out of his, I'm assuming, extremely busy schedule ... to send someone to call me to make sure I'm safe," explained Raichik.

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Elon Musk STUNS hosts with brutally honest answer about the future of Twitter



On “The Rubin Report,” BlazeTV host Dave Rubin shared a video clip from Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s surprise appearance on the “All-In" podcast with hosts David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, and David Friedberg.

Asked about Dave Rubin's observation of the New York Times’ inflated follower counts on Twitter, Musk gave a brutally honest answer about what has been going on behind the scenes at the social media company, what his first six weeks as the CEO have been like, and what new features Twitter users can expect in the near future.

"It's been quite a roller coaster," Musk said. "But overall that seems to be going in a good direction, and, you know, we've got the expenses reasonably under control, so the company's not in the fast lane to bankruptcy anymore, and we're releasing features faster than ever in Twitter's history at the same time as having contained the costs, and we've reduced the cost structure by a factor of three, maybe four."

Musk went on to describe several of the new features to verify user identities and organization affiliations and to eliminate bots or inauthentic accounts. Later in the podcast, he shocked his hosts by stating that "almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true" as they discussed the Twitter Files, a set of reports released to expose Twitter's alleged information suppression and collusion with government agencies prior to Musk's purchase of the company in October 2022.

\u201cElon Musk\n"To be totally frank, almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true."\u201d
— Gretchen \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Gretchen \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1671938456

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Abbott shuts down ABC host with reality check when she tries to shift blame for border crisis



On “The Rubin Report” this week, BlazeTV host Dave Rubin shared a video clip of ABC News’ Martha Raddatz attempting to convince Americans that Republican rhetoric from the likes of former President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is to blame for the ever-worsening crisis at the southern border — not the Biden administration's policies.

"You talk about the border wall. You talk about open borders. I don't think I've ever heard President Biden say, 'We have an open border, come on over.' But the people I have heard said it are you, or former President Trump, or Ron DeSantis," Raddatz said to Abbott on ABC's "This Week."

"That message reverberates in Mexico and beyond. So they do get the message that it is an open border, and smugglers use all those kinds of statements," she added.

"It was known from the time that Joe Biden got elected — that Joe Biden supported open borders," Abbott replied. "It is known by the cartels that have sophisticated information, whether the Biden administration is going to enforce the immigration laws or not. It's known across the world, but most importantly known among the cartels."

Raddatz wasn't quite ready to give up. "And how do you play into that? What can you do better?" she asked.

"We have every level of government doing everything we can to prevent people from coming into the country illegally, or repelling them, or arresting them and putting them behind bars," Abbott stated.

"Do you see what [Raddatz] just did there?" Dave asked after playing the clip. "She's saying to Greg Abbott, who has all these Texas border towns, she's saying because you guys say that Biden has an open border, that's why people are coming. Not because of Biden's actions. So she's trying to blame the people who are calling out the problem, for the problem itself."

He added, "She completely flips the reality ... it's not Biden who says 'open borders.' It's you guys — who are not in charge of the border. It's you, Greg Abbott. It's you, Ron DeSantis. It's you, Donald Trump. And that's what the migrants hear ... and that's why they're coming. It's such an extraordinarily subtle, pernicious distortion of the truth. Gross, disgusting, but this is what they do to all Republicans."

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Room goes SILENT when CEO says parents 'don't have the right' to know about child's sex change



On “The Rubin Report," BlazeTV host Dave Rubin shared a video clip from a recent House of Representatives hearing in which CEO and executive director of Inside Out Youth Services, Jessie Pocock, skirted around the question of whether parents have the right to know if their child is seeking "gender-affirming care" before finally admitting that "parents don't have the right" — at least not in her home state of Colorado.

Asked by Texas Rep. Michael Cloud (R) if she believes parents have a right to be involved in "these sorts of discussions," Pocock first answered that "anyone can be a trusted adult" to a child facing the "difficult problem" of gender identity. Pressed again, she said there are "about 100 parents who participate in our programs to support their young people ... at Inside Out."

"But do parents have a right to know, is my question," Cloud stated.

"Do parents have a right to know what?" Pocock asked irritably. But when Cloud again repeated the question, she began to talk about children in abusive homes.

"It sounds like you're deflecting the question a little bit," Cloud cut in. "I understand there are cases of abuse. There are laws to protect ... I mean, schools actually are legally obligated to report cases of abuse. Same for churches and the like, anyone who deals with young people. But, do parents have a right? Should they be informed about what's going on? Do they have a right to know what's going on in their kids' lives?"

"So I think, again, those of us who are protecting and supporting young people are there and trusted with the information of the things that they are dealing with," Pocock said. "In terms of parents' rights to know at schools, I mean, here in Colorado parents don't have the right."

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Study shows 'The Daily Show with Trevor Noah' was even MORE deceptive than we thought



On “The Rubin Report,” BlazeTV host Dave Rubin shared new data showing that the liberal bias of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” was even worse than we knew.

"During his seven-year tenure as host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Trevor Noah brought a reliably liberal bias to the program, a NewsBusters study has found. MRC analysts found that from when Noah began hosting The Daily Show on September 28, 2015 through his final show on December 8, 2022, Noah had on 159 partisan guests, including 109 unique individuals. Of these 159 guests, 137, or 86.16 percent, were Democrats or in some way affiliated with the Democratic Party," the study reads.

"Now, I want to be clear, I mostly at this point in my career have right-leaning guests on [my show]," Dave said after sharing the study's findings. "We try to get Democrats on all the time ... they don't generally want to talk. But I'm not hiding what my political bias are like Comedy Central, [which] is thought of as an apolitical network. But everything they gave you, everything they made feel normal, was from a leftist perspective."

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Trudeau declares, 'Canada is a place of FREE expression' — is immediately RIDICULED for some reason



On “The Rubin Report” this week, BlazeTV host Dave Rubin shared a pair of video clips that shine a spotlight on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s glaring hypocrisy when it comes to free speech.

Speaking at the COP15 Summit in Montreal last week, Trudeau claimed that "Canada is a place of free expression," adding that "individuals and communities are free to express themselves openly and strongly, and we thank them for sharing their perspectives."

\u201cTrudeau: "Canada is a place of free expression, where individuals and communities are free to express themselves openly and strongly..."\u201d
— The Post Millennial (@The Post Millennial) 1670431990

For some reason, many people on Twitter seemed to be more than a little bit skeptical about Trudeau's claims.

\u201c@Firewife_Paula @TPostMillennial Touch\u00e9. Sad what he has done to the Canadians.\u201d
— The Post Millennial (@The Post Millennial) 1670431990
\u201c@TPostMillennial I think hundreds of Canadian truck drivers would disagree with you\u201d
— The Post Millennial (@The Post Millennial) 1670431990
\u201c@TPostMillennial I have no idea what's parody and what's reality anymore\u201d
— The Post Millennial (@The Post Millennial) 1670431990
\u201c@TPostMillennial \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\nOh wait, did "they" change the definition of Free?\u201d
— The Post Millennial (@The Post Millennial) 1670431990
\u201c@TPostMillennial Same guy who froze trucker bank accounts, repo\u2019d their trucks, dox\u2019d them, and threw them in jail\u201d
— The Post Millennial (@The Post Millennial) 1670431990
\u201c@TPostMillennial I don't know how he could have said that with a straight face. I feel like laugh tracks should be playing in the background.\u201d
— The Post Millennial (@The Post Millennial) 1670431990
\u201cPM Justin Trudeau\u2019s speech at #COP15 interrupted by a group of Indigenous youth from Canada\u2019s west coast\u201d
— Jack Graham (@Jack Graham) 1670361129
\u201cThis is outrageous!\u201d
— ChatterBoxMuse \u2742 (@ChatterBoxMuse \u2742) 1670432457

Dave compared the clip of Trudeau trumpeting his support for "free expression" with a second video in which he urges social media companies to regulate anything he deems to be "a real problem in our communities."

"How far are you willing to go with regulating social media companies, and what do you say to those who think that it's an attempt to stifle free speech?" a reporter asked Trudeau in the clip.

"I think we've seen the impact that social media — particularly around hate speech, around intolerance, around incitement to violence — is a real problem in our communities," responded Trudeau. "We need to always walk that careful balance between respecting rights to free expression and free speech and keeping our community safe. Unfortunately, what happens in the virtual world sometimes spills over into the real world, and I think it's really important that social media companies understand their responsibility to shape and to ensure that our communities stay safe for everyone."

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