Congressman Jim Banks is back on Twitter after he deleted a tweet that went against the platform’s Terms of Service.
On October 19, Banks tweeted about Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender woman who recently became the first transgender four-star officer in the U.S. uniformed service.
“The title of first female four-star officer gets taken by a man,” he tweeted. On October 23, Twitter removed the tweet for violating a rule against “targeted misgendering.”
Banks deleted the tweet to gain access to his account but said he stands by what he said.
“Twitter provides a crucial platform for elected officials to communicate with voters, which is part of what makes Twitter’s biased and arbitrary censorship so dangerous,” he said. “Fighting the left’s censorship will remain a priority of mine for as long as I’m in Congress.”
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