Rep. Jim Banks said his official Twitter account has been suspended after he intentionally misgendered Department of Health and Human Services assistant secretary for health Rachel Levine in a tweet.
Banks, R-Ind., on Saturday shared a screenshot of the tweet where he referred to Levine, the first openly transgender Cabinet official confirmed by the Senate, as “a man” after she was named the first female and first transgender four-star officer of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
A Twitter representative told The Hill Banks’ account had been temporarily locked for violating the social network’s Hateful Conduct policy.
My statement on being censored for tweeting a basic truth and banned from using my official account at @RepJimBanks👇 https://t.co/N5MBvJKz6g pic.twitter.com/bwQxhRAUOO
— Jim Banks (@Jim_Banks) October 23, 2021
The policy includes “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals” as a violation of the policy.
“The account owner is required to delete the violative Tweet before regaining access to their account,” the Twitter representative said.
Banks on Saturday described the tweet as a “statement of fact” and said he would continue to post from his personal account while the suspension is in place.
“Big Tech doesn’t have to agree with me, but they shouldn’t be able to cancel me,” he wrote in a statement shared to his personal account. “If they silence me, they will silence you.”
He added that if Republicans gain a majority in the House next year that they must “restore honesty to our public forums and hold Big Tech accountable.”
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What can one say? The communists at twitter screaming “diversity and inclusiveness” and then excluding freedom of speech by censorship.
Like always, THEIR IDEA OF inclusivity and diversity, ONLY IS A ONE WAY STREET. WE must include, tolerate and accept them and their insane ideas, but THEY NEVER EVER WILL ACCEPT or tolerate us or our ideas.
“Dude look like a lady . . .”—Aerosmith
There was a day when this country was proud of its educational institutions—proud to showcase our intellectual achievements—then the stupidity virus hit. And now it is stupidity—stupidity—stupidity—at every turn. Our educational system—our culture—our society—has been overrun by idiots of every stripe and we are sinking in a quagmire of ignorance.
Take back your schools, Get Trump to get his unbiased Socials Media site up and running, outlaw mail-in voting, then take back your government.
WE are already trying to get our schools back…
What needs to be done is to make clothing against the law (I know it sounds stupid). If everybody is totally nude then we can dispense with the 63 different genders. Want me to refer to you as what you are ?–nudity eliminates all the stupid questions and the people confused about what they are. I guess in her case, it would be “wow, look at wanker on that cow”.
Even if Levine has his penis cut off and even if he looked like a female, he would still have a Y chromosome.
Levine is a male pretending to be a female and Twitter is simply making Jim Banks pretend too if he wants to use their platform.
Pity there’s no innoculation, against that stupidity virus.
Actually there is and it prevents it from spreading, at least from the inoculated carrier. Nuff said…
that thing is an abomniation!
And their abominations keep bombing our nation with things more destructive than explosives.
That thing is not a female, follow the science. Biologically there are two sexes, count them, two!
And no amount of surgery or therapy WILL ALTER THAT FACT.
Since when was it hateful speach to call a piece of fruit a fruit, a fully equipped man a man, a stallion a stallion, or a gelding a gelding if his equipment gets removed? The ugly truth keeps getting in the way of these Liberally insane twiter brians, whose own twits and tweets sound more and more like the call of the cuckoo birds when they try to take over clean American nests of information and drop their rotton eggs into them and expect them to hatch into something that resembles real life. They fail to produce the truth like they sexually fail to reproduce their own kind biologically unable to in their misdirected love attemtps so like true liberals have to redistribute and prey on American life force created by others, as God and nature intended. Just leave them alone and they will come home in drag ,,,,dragging their tails and their empty nexts behind them, like the Little Bo Peep, Socialist sheep that they are.
Careful how you use the word, “fruit.” You sure cannot misgender , “ugly.” That thing could run a buzzard off a gut wagon.
SINCE the left got in control of too many things!
And themselves ate of the forbidden fruit they now offer us to digest.
Offer? MORE like they are trying to FORCE FEED IT to us…
This traitorous, dishonorable, dishonest, immoral, socialist Democrat Party has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!!
THEY HAVE always been our enemy.. Now they just are not worried about having to hide it.
Won’t it be great when Trump gets his NETWORK up and running and we won’t need to use Twitter or Facebook!
I must say, HE ( the first four star Admiral ) is just stunningly beautiful. I breathlessly await the news, that HE has given birth to a brand new human baby. You see, men CAN get pregnant and birth a human baby. It’s a miracle!!!
To what degree do I have to participate in your delusions?
To communists like her, IN EVERY MANNER..
This would almost be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic. Rome didn’t die a peaceful death, it was assassinated. Same is happening to us as we sit by and watch it happening.
Just remember, when we get tired of being pushed, we WILL push back, and with extreme prejudice. Just think about how many veterans in this country are just waiting for the right minute. Let’s just hope when the minute is here, we don’t miss it. Just think how many of us there are?
NON COMPLIANCE IS THE KEY TO THE WINNERS CIRCLE.
Perhaps some mean tweeter will come down from the Alps with his elephants and over run these legions…
Hey, Representative Banks…
Whey you get back on, why not just refer to the “Department of Health and Human Services assistant secretary” as “the person with a PENIS”?!
OR just stay the hell AWAY FROM TWITTER, and start only using sites like Rumble, Gab and the like.
This fits the democrat liquid morals.
In CA they passed on electing the first Black governor, in Larry Elder, for the corrupt, spineless, white guy, going so far as to claim Elder (a very qualified BLACK man) to be a white supremacist.
Male athletes call themselves female and dominate in women’s sports they were at best mediocre when competing with males.
Un-electable politicians are “elected” by nefarious means or awarded a position of power in spite of lack of any knowledge of the job’s demands…..and no one is supposed to notice or mention it.
BUT yet, too many of the FEMINIST pro sports stars, are SILENT on that…
Misgendering…?
Looks to me like Rep. Banks got it right…Looks like someone slapped a cheap Danaerys Targaryen wig on Ned Beatty…
Democrat version of deliverance. WHere’s my bow and arrow Burt? The collective relative low star rating’ of this article’s response is proof positive they have people with nothing else to do, paid to monitor Conservatives sites and trash any and all ideas that threaten their abilty to control the arguments. Seems most have to do with LBGT subjects.
If you call racist to anyone who wave the flag defend the Constitution of the United States stand up for your children if you disagree with the education system if you are a Christian even if you wear a cross if you disagree on what they believe they can call you all kind of hateful words and even attack you but for Twitter this is ok. Idiots you will never take our Freedom of Speech nor our Freedom of Region and most of all our love to America and its flag
Seriously, THIS IS A MAN…albeit a very homely one. Long hair, lipstick and jewelry DON’T make you a woman. Some men could pass, but THIS! Of course, it has democrat/liberal written all over it.
This is just one more reason America has become a laughingstock. I mean, really, having THIS sit across from you at a meeting?
Rachel Levine. What does the DNA say – XY. I don’t care how it dresses, what it says, what it thinks, how it pisses. All these choices are all OK with me. But HE is.still a man. You can call yourself a grapefruit, but that doesn’t make you a grapefruit.
I am glad he has the balls to say it and I bet she has them too
I am really tired of this sort of censorship from these social media platforms. 1) Involved here is a statement of fact, not ‘hate speech’. 2) Under Section 230 of the Communications Act, these sites are kept free from liability, such as a publisher would be, IN EXCHANGE FOR acting like a public forum. They should NOT be able to censor simply on the basis of socio-political opinions. All of these sites evidencing that sort of activity should have been CALLED TO ACCOUNT long ago, and slapped down for their obvious partisanship. Pres. Trump should not have to set up his own such platforms, in order to converse with the public via a PUBLIC FORUM. Neither should there have to be a change in the law. The law is just fine regarding this matter. It is the failure to act on the law that is the problem. Which is fatal. Give these Marxists an inch, and they will take a mile.
We must all bow down and pretend with the pretenders. We must pretend this is a woman. We must pretend Biden is our President. We must pretend Mainstream News is news. We must pretend White people are bad and on and on.