Twitter weakens protections for transgender users against harassment and deadnaming.

Twitter has removed language in its hateful conduct policy that explicitly protected transgender people from online harassment, sparking backlash from users and advocacy groups. The change in language may embolden transphobic users to ramp up their activities even further, and strips away the deterrent effect of having the policy in writing. Twitter's content moderation policies have been inconsistent in the past, and the effectiveness of the policies was close to zero even before the policy language changed.