YouTube gave Steven Crowder's channel a strike for discussing laws allowing biological male inmates into women's prisons: Steven Crowder posted to YouTube the September 30 episode of his podcast Louder With Crowder, which discussed a story of women in California who became pregnant after the state allowed allegedly transgender biological males into women's prisons. Crowder was commenting on an article published in the Santa Monica Observer titled "California Women’s Prison Passes Out Condoms to Inmate Population As Arrival Of 'Transwomen' Causes Explosion Of Risky Sex." YouTube allowed the video to remain on the platform for nearly two weeks before it claimed Crowder's video violated its hate speech policies. YouTube removed the video and gave channel its first strike, suspending him from uploading to either of his channels for a week according to Crowder. Screenshots posted on Crowder's Instagram account show YouTube explained in the removal notice that "content glorifying or inciting violence against another person or group of people is not allowed on YouTube. We also don't allow content that encourages hatred of another person based on their membership in a protected group." The legal counsel for YouTube even emailed Crowder's team specifying that his discussion of the news story "targets the transgender community in an offensive manner, for example, by indicating that trans people pose a rape threat to women," according to screenshots. The platform's three-strikes system typically allows for a warning and two strikes within a 90 day period before a third strike would remove a channel from the platform entirely.