X revives policy targeting deadnaming, misgendering
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, updated its abuse and harassment rules to revive regulations around content that misgenders or deadnames individuals.
The quiet update comes less than a year after the platform, under Musk’s ownership, revoked its ban on content that uses a transgender person’s name before they transitioned — known as a deadname — or purposefully used the wrong gender for someone.
The update to X’s abuse and harassment rules was first reported by Ars Technica.
The updated…