Just last week I have reported a tweet to Twitter which is --- in my opinion --- "a bit" worse than misgendering, but Twitter in its unparalleled wisdom came to the decision, that this is not hate speech. It said: "straight man should be jailed at 18 and take an exam of being a decent human being to get out". Just imagine someone said the same words with "straight man" replaced by "woman", "gay woman", "trans people", "black people" or "jews". There would be an outrage , and that would be the right reaction in my opinion.

So, I have some questions about Twitter's rules and about the process that applies them.

> It said: "straight man should be jailed at 18 and take an exam of being a decent human being to get out"

No it didn’t

Discrimination and calls for violence are codified in law and commonly accepted as wrong.

Making up your own category, then forcing other people to name you by that category on pain of committing a "verbal assault" is still a pretty contended topic.

It might be, but gender is a category that has quite some precedent. I'm willing to bet that you would be at least mildly perturbed by being misgendered.

(I'm interpreting "made up category" as "relatively novel category"; all categories are "made up".)

The implication here being that any perterbation or social disagreement should not be allowed on the site. How is that a good thing?

Can you think of any case _at all_ in which purposefully misgendering someone is anything other than outright harassment against a minority who already has it pretty fucking tough?

Maybe someone else was unaware of the other's desired gender. Maybe they don't accept the idea that people get to choose their own gender. The expression of different cultural norms is not necessarily harassment.

> Maybe someone else was unaware of the other's desired gender

Then it wasn’t purposefully doing it, so I’m not sure how it’s relevant to my question

> Maybe they don’t accept the idea that

Plenty of people don’t accept the idea that men and women should be accepted equally, or that you can’t ban black people from living in your apartment, or that men who have sex with other men need to be put to death. That you’ve drawn an arbitrary line doesn’t privilege your line.

People don't get to choose their own gender, they get to choose their own gender expression. Freedom of expression (to some greater extent) is quite popular in most societies. No-one's complaining about good-faith mistakes, but if we could arrange for those mistakes to be very difficult to make then so much the better.

> and commonly accepted as wrong

I mean in your country, sure, but let’s not pretend these are universal. Feels like your distinction between ideology and “wrong” is that’s just like, your opinion, man?