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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 10:13:23 JST Casey Newton

NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: https://www.platformer.news/meta-new-trans-guidelines-hate-speech/
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1. And in a follow-up questions about whether denying that a protected class violates the hateful content policy, Meta also answers no. It gave these as examples of posts that are now allowed on Facebook and Instagram: "There's no such thing as trans children." "God created two genders, 'transgender' people are not a real thing." "This whole nonbinary thing is made up. Those people don't exist, they're just in need of some therapy." "A trans woman isn't a woman, it's a pathetic confused man." "A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it." These seem like strange allowances for a policy that begins: “We believe that people use their voice and connect more freely when they don’t feel attacked on the basis of who they are,” and later states flatly, “we remove dehumanizing speech.” It is hard to imagine speech more dehumanizing than to tell someone that they have no gender and are an “it.”
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  Inside Meta’s dehumanizing new speech policies for trans people
  
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  "A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it," reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram
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  Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 12:14:07 JST Rich Felker
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  @caseynewton Can you mark the image as sensitive or cw the post? I'm pseudo-QB'ing instead of boosting because I don't want to put hatrle speech directly in my followers' feeds.
  
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