{"id":626441,"date":"2021-08-09T16:07:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=626441"},"modified":"2021-08-09T16:07:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:07:25","slug":"twitter-suspends-more-writers-for-noting-that-transgender-olympic-weightlifter-laurel-hubbard-is-biologically-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-suspends-more-writers-for-noting-that-transgender-olympic-weightlifter-laurel-hubbard-is-biologically-male\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Suspends More Writers For Noting That Transgender Olympic Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard Is Biologically Male"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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-more-writers-for-noting-that-transgender-olympic-weightlifter-laurel-hubbard-is-biologically-male%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=626441&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1295388232-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Twitter censors are continuing to patrol the platform for posts that acknowledge the scientific fact that male-to-female transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is a biological man.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/twitter-suspends-conservative-pundit-allie-beth-stuckey-for-stating-that-transgender-weightlifter-is-a-man\">reported<\/a> last week, the tech giant suspended popular conservative podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey for a post that read, \u201cHubbard failing at the [Olympic] event doesn\u2019t make his inclusion fair. He\u2019s still a man, and men shouldn\u2019t compete against women in weightlifting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter promptly notified Stuckey that she had violated its policy against \u201chateful conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later the same day, responding to news of Stuckey\u2019s suspension, conservative Christian radio host Erick Erickson tweeted, \u201cThis is absurd. Laurel Hubbard is a man, even if Twitter doesn\u2019t like it.\u201d Erickson, too, was promptly suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Erickson\u2019s high-profile lockout inspired gay conservative writer Chad Felix Greene to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chadfelixg\/status\/1424046657101078528?s=20\">repeat<\/a> Erickson\u2019s comment with the added hashtag, #StopSuppressingSpeech. At present, Twitter has not reacted to Greene\u2019s post, but it did suspend Esther O\u2019Reilly for taking up the call with Greene\u2019s exact verbiage, including his hashtag, in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chadfelixg\/status\/1424046657101078528?s=20\">post<\/a>&nbsp;of her own.<\/p>\n<p>For this, O\u2019Reilly also found herself locked out of her account, with Twitter telling her in an automated notification, \u201cWe have determined that you have violated the Twitter Rules, so you\u2019ll need to wait some time before using Twitter again \u2026 Note: You may need to perform some additional tasks to resume using Twitter.\u201d By that, the company meant she would have to delete the tweet. \u201cI\u2019ve earned my jailbird badge!\u201d she joked to The Daily Wire in an email.<\/p>\n<p>The math Ph.D. and academic uses a nom de plume in her political writing for Quillette, the Federalist, and British publication, The Spectator. She explained that, like Stuckey, she chose to drop an appeal to revisit the decision because she didn\u2019t want to wait to regain access to her account, particularly because she doubted Twitter would give her petition a fair hearing given that its latest user policy classes \u201cmisgendering\u201d as \u201chateful conduct.\u201d But as soon as she was allowed back on the platform, O\u2019Reilly began sharing screenshots of the tweet that prompted Twitter\u2019s 12-hour penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Such time-outs are becoming the norm for the app, especially as they relate to speech about transgender individuals and the transgender movement. While writers and commentators like O\u2019Reilly, Erickson, and Stuckey have complied by removing the posts that triggered Twitter\u2019s action, all immediately reiterated their conviction that men cannot become women once they regained access to their accounts. And all have continued to speak about the issue in other formats.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, after his suspension was lifted, Erickson reemphasized his belief in biological reality in a new post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI return to Twitter to reiterate my tweet,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EWErickson\/status\/1424761393786638337?s=20\">said<\/a>. \u201cTwitter may have decided to ally with Woke-O Haram, but no one can change their sex, including Laurel Hubbard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erickson then posted a link to a lengthy Substack <a href=\"https:\/\/ewerickson.substack.com\/p\/i-stand-by-my-tweet\">essay<\/a> in which he declared, \u201cI stand by my Tweet. Laurel Hubbard remains a man. While there are exceptions \u2026 the rule for biological sex is based on chromosomes.\u201d He then highlighted basic scientific facts about chromosomal pairings in mammals before continuing:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"33\">\n<p><em>For some time the transgender community has sought to bully people into acceptance of their psychosis. Anyone who speaks the truth is punished.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Major corporations, who want to protect themselves from controversy, have embraced the psychosis and are the agents of censorship for the transgender community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In theistic creation, mankind is created by God and He made them male and female. In Darwinian evolution, through a process of natural selection, the fittest survive. In neither theistic creation or Darwinian evolution can a human being change sex because the survival and perpetuation of the species require that a woman get pregnant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If climate change is settled science, biological sex is even more settled. Less than five years ago, the transgender movement argued that sex was biologically determined, but gender was socially constructed. Now, rapidly moving the goalposts, sex is also now claimed to be a social construct.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Twitter may not like that I called Laurel Hubbard a man, but Hubbard is a man even if he has decided otherwise. None of us should indulge in a lie for the sake of someone\u2019s self-esteem. That is not healthy for society.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That said, the radio host did not revisit his past <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EWErickson\/status\/1347961754891001861?s=20\">argument<\/a> that social media giants are entitled to police speech on their platforms in light of his suspension. But he has acknowledged that his views on repealing section 230 \u2014 legislation that protects platforms like Twitter from lawsuits and allows them greater leeway to censor \u2014 may be <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EWErickson\/status\/1347962614408749058?s=20\">evolving<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Reilly believes the argument put forth by conservative pundits like Constitutional lawyer <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5930281\/right-wing-silicon-valley-free-speech\/\">David French<\/a>, that Twitter, as a private platform, has a right to suppress speech like her Hubbard post is \u201ca silly red herring and always has been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point,\u201d she said, \u201ceveryone paying attention knows Washington has nothing on Silicon Valley when it comes to power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As evidence of this, by Sunday evening, Twitter began suspending even accounts with a small number of followers for sharing the hashtag #LaurelHubbardIsAMan. One such user, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ev_deGallery2\">Evelyn De Gallery<\/a> reached out to The Daily Wire to share a screenshot of her suspension. She said she hasn\u2019t deleted her post yet, however, because she \u201cdoesn\u2019t want [Twitter censors] to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Babylon Bee took note of Twitter\u2019s suspension rampage and shared their own satirical take, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-kamala-harris-to-discuss-sending-covid-19-vaccines-to-border-amid-concerns-of-infected-migrants\">fake news story<\/a> headlined, \u201cY Chromosome Suspended From Twitter For Calling Laurel Hubbard A Man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article went on,&nbsp;\u201c\u2019We\u2019ve repeatedly warned the Y chromosome to respect people\u2019s gender identities,\u2019 said Twitter spokesman Patrick Simpson. \u2018Yet there it is, every day, in each one of Laurel Hubbard\u2019s cells, insisting she\u2019s a man. If that\u2019s not hateful conduct, I don\u2019t know what is.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter censors are continuing to patrol the platform for posts that acknowledge the scientific fact that male-to-female transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is a biological man.As The Daily Wire reported last &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626441","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\/626441","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626441\/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=626441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}