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Re:Kanye West Is Suspended from Twitter After Posting a Swas... by musk_micropenis on Friday December 02, 2022 @12:58PM (#33834103)
That's not true at all. There are many, many cases of people being banned for what I would consider quite mild transphobia. There's was a high profile case this year[0] where a republican Senate candidate was banned for saying,

"Women's sports are for women, not men pretending to be women"

It is not hard to find many more cases and of course the vast majority of banned accounts belong to people with no public profile and you'll never hear about them.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/twitter-suspends-u-s-s...

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Re:Kanye West Is Suspended from Twitter After Posting a Swas... by rsynnott on Friday December 02, 2022 @02:09PM (#33835260)
From your article:

> Hartzler’s tweet, posted in mid-February, said: “Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women,” _and included her TV ad targeting transgender people in sports and particularly University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas._

Emphasis mine.

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Re:Kanye West Is Suspended from Twitter After Posting a Swas... by nailer on Saturday December 03, 2022 @02:59AM (#33841655)
That’s a fairly mainstream view, and the idea that gender is performance is popular in gender-theory too.
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