{"id":1394474,"date":"2022-03-22T14:47:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T18:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394474"},"modified":"2022-03-22T14:47:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T18:47:22","slug":"twitter-suspends-charlie-kirk-for-calling-biological-male-rachel-levine-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-suspends-charlie-kirk-for-calling-biological-male-rachel-levine-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Suspends Charlie Kirk for Calling Biological Male Rachel Levine a &#039;Man&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-suspends-charlie-kirk-for-calling-biological-male-rachel-levine-a-man%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394474&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Turning Point USA founder and conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk has been locked out of his Twitter account until he deletes a tweet about male-to-female transgender Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services Rachel Levine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRichard Levine spent 54 years of his life as a man,\u201d Kirk wrote in his tweet. \u201cHe had a wife and a family. He \u2018transitioned\u2019 to being a woman in 2011, Joe Biden appointed Levine to be a 4-Star Admiral and now USA Today has named \u2018Rachel\u2019 Levine as a \u2018Woman of the Year.\u2019 Where are the feminists?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20318825\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/IMAGE-2022-03-22-08_56_24.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Charlie Kirk\/Screenshot)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Following his tweet, Kirk was locked out of his Twitter account and informed that he had violated the social media platform\u2019s \u201crules against hateful conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20221874\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/50373175601_dab2e73d4e_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20221874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/50373175601_dab2e73d4e_k.jpg\" alt=\"Sec. of Health Dr. Rachel Levine speaking to the press. Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of the Department of Health Dr. Rachel Levine today launched the COVID-19 exposure notification mobile app, COVID Alert PA, to help fight the spread of the virus. Philadelphia, PA \u2013 September 22, 2020\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sec. of Health Dr. Rachel Levine (Governor Tom Wolf \/ Flickr)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18935042\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Parag-Agrawal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18935042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Parag-Agrawal.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal (Google Cloud\/YouTube)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cDelete Tweet,\u201d Twitter told Kirk in a message. \u201cYou\u00a0may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirk told Breitbart News, \u201cTwitter just proved it doesn\u2019t believe in truth. It believes in narrative. It doesn\u2019t believe in science. It believes in ideology. It doesn\u2019t believe in biology, it believes in gender theories. They don\u2019t want the truth, they want submission. We cannot give them what they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Turning Point USA founder is not\u00a0the only Twitter user to be locked out of his account for stating that a man is a male.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk\u2019s suspension comes after the Christian\u00a0satire site The Babylon Bee was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/21\/babylon-bee-defiant-24-hours-twitter-lockdown-calling-rachel-levine-man\/\">locked out<\/a> of its account and told to delete a tweet featuring an article\u00a0mocking USA Today for recently declaring the biological male Rachel Levine a \u201cwoman of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;re told our account will be restored in 12 hours, but the countdown won&#8217;t begin until we delete the tweet that violates the Twitter Rules. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/85tdmrqJpU\">pic.twitter.com\/85tdmrqJpU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethDillon\/status\/1505666033620815880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Babylon Bee has remained defiant 24 hours after Twitter locked its account, with the site\u2019s CEO\u00a0Seth Dillon <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethDillon\/status\/1505674884222967810?s=20&#038;t=yuV2jFaSbERnXqvXhPUu7A\">stating<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019re not deleting anything. Truth is not hate speech. If the cost of telling the truth is the loss of our Twitter account, then so be it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana\u00a0Mastrangelo on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Twitter at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning Point USA founder and conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk has been locked out of his Twitter account until he deletes a tweet about male-to-female transgender Assistant Secretary of Health and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}