{"id":963747,"date":"2021-11-03T17:58:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=963747"},"modified":"2021-11-03T17:58:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:58:54","slug":"twitter-censors-pj-media-for-calling-rachel-levine-a-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-censors-pj-media-for-calling-rachel-levine-a-male\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Censors PJ Media for Calling Rachel Levine a 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\">20<\/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-censors-pj-media-for-calling-rachel-levine-a-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=963747&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\">Conservative news and commentary site PJ Media reports that Twitter locked its account for calling Rachel Levine, the transgender assistant secretary for health, a male.<\/p>\n<p>PJ Media shared a screenshot of a message from Twitter informing them that it must delete a tweet referring to Levine as a male before regaining access to their account.<\/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_16872638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"39\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1233272189.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16872638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1233272189.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and co-founder &amp; CEO of Square, attends the crypto-currency conference Bitcoin 2021 Convention at the Mana Convention Center in Miami, Florida, on June 4, 2021. (Photo by Marco BELLO \/ AFP) (Photo by MARCO BELLO\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and co-founder &amp; CEO of Square, attends the crypto-currency conference Bitcoin 2021 Convention at the Mana Convention Center in Miami, Florida, on June 4, 2021. (Photo by Marco BELLO \/ AFP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15783938\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"41\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Rachel-Levine-HHS-testimony-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15783938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Rachel-Levine-HHS-testimony-ap.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Levine, nominated to be an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. (Caroline Brehman\/Pool via AP)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Levine, nominated to be an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. (Caroline Brehman\/Pool via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/columns\/paula-bolyard\/2021\/11\/01\/twitter-locked-pj-medias-account-for-telling-the-truth-about-gender-n1528635\">PJ Media:<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"16.686626746507\">\n<p>We knew this would eventually happen. Twitter has locked PJ Media\u2019s account and is demanding that we delete a tweet that told the truth about Rachel Levine\u2019s gender. You remember Levine. He\u2019s Joe Biden\u2019s transgender assistant secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2021\/10\/19\/levine-transgender-four-star-admiral-public-health-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">if you believe the&nbsp;<em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em>&nbsp;the \u201cfirst-ever female<b>&nbsp;<\/b>four-star admiral\u201d in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEven if you believe that gender is a social construct and subject to how one feels and not dependent on biology, sex chromosomes determine whether an individual is male or female. Rachel Levine is 100 percent male, right down to his DNA. He is not a female. He may have grown his hair out and changed his name to a woman\u2019s name, but that doesn\u2019t make him a female.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Twitter has one of the strictest policies on so-called misgendering in Silicon Valley. In 2018, Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2018\/11\/26\/twitter-bans-prominent-feminist-for-saying-men-arent-women\/\">permanently banned Meghan Murphy<\/a>, a Canadian feminist who refused to deny that transwomen are men.<\/p>\n<p>It later faced a lawsuit over this enforcement action, with Murphy accusing the platform of censoring \u201cbasic facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative news and commentary site PJ Media reports that Twitter locked its account for calling Rachel Levine, the transgender assistant secretary for health, a male. 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