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How I Personally Learned That X Hasn’t At All Liked Anti-Transgender Policy Criticism At Least In Bios
In the middle of last decade, I remember my birth father asking me for people I admire. Elon Musk — today, the owner of X — came to mind. And he was second, immediately after Thomas Jefferson.
Things have since changed.
It wasn’t because of the issue I discuss in this article, but X hasn’t helped themselves since.
That’s because they suspended my account after I put “Opposed to Twitter’s new deadnaming* allow” into my X bio. X was called Twitter when I made the bio edit about a policy change Musk’s company made.
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X made the suspension after they restored that policy on Feb. 29**. (I didn’t know they did until after seeing the suspension/when I started writing this article.) However, because of X, I couldn’t have edited the bio. I would have had I known about the policy restoration.
And before that, X also
- removed all follows of my account
- changed my profile picture to a generic/not me animated image
- didn’t allow me to…
