Lindsey Maschler Week 14: Tik Tok bans misgendering and dead-naming transgender people

 On Tuesday, February 7, TikTok banned anti-LGBTQ+ content and speech on the app. The brand updated their community guidelines, and noted that it is “adding clarity on the types of hateful ideologies prohibited on our platform,” then saying that they will be banning transgender people’s pre transitioned name, otherwise known as a dead name, as well as banning misgendering and the use of incorrect pronouns. They are also banning content that supports conversion therapy since it is a practice that stops someone from being a part of the LGBTQ+ community. 

GLAAD, a charity that advocates for the LGBTQ+ community, is a major influence on why TikTok is making these new rules. The new policy includes ideas that the group posted on TikTok last year through the Social Media Safety index, which deemed 5 of the most popular social media platforms unsafe and uncomfortable for LGBTQ+ users. 

For years, members of the LGBTQ+ community have been facing discrimination and harassment on social media apps, like TikTok. A survey from the Anti-Defamation League last year, an anti-hate organization, saw that about 64 percent of the people in the LGBTQ+ community experienced very negative hate online. Specifically, transgender people face a very high amount of hate and harassment online. A study in 2019 by the Ditch the Label organization, an organization for anti-bullying, analyzed 10 million posts online about transgender people over 3 and a half years and found that 15 percent of said posts were transphobic. Research also suggests that misgendering and deadnaming people can negatively affect transgender youth’s mental health. A study in 2018 revealed that in 2018, trans people aged 15 to 21 who were allowed to use their chosen name in places like school, work, and at home, had a lower risk of depression and suicide. 

In addition to the prohibitions on misgendering and deadnaming, TikTok’s new policy will also “remove the promotion of disordered eating” and prohibit the use of TikTok to commit crimes, among other changes. What do you think of TikTok’s new policy?


https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/tiktok-bans-misgendering-deadnaming-trans-people-rcna15386

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