The Advocate
“LinkedIn, the popular professional networking platform, has quietly stripped explicit protections for transgender and nonwhite users from its English-language hate speech rules, repeating a playbook now familiar to LGBTQ+ advocates tracking the rollback of content safeguards across major social media platforms.
“The changes, first flagged by the nonprofit Open Terms Archive and independently confirmed by The Advocate, involve edits to LinkedIn’s Professional Community Policies, specifically the “Hateful and Derogatory Content” and “Harassment and Abusive Content” sections. In both, references to protections for transgender people and people of color were either weakened or removed entirely.
“Before Monday, the site’s “Hateful and Derogatory Content” page included a line explicitly prohibiting the “misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals” as an example of hate speech. That language has now been deleted. The same page still states that LinkedIn prohibits content that “attacks, denigrates, intimidates, dehumanizes, incites or threatens hatred” against individuals based on characteristics including gender identity and race. But misgendering and deadnaming, terms that refer to deliberately using the wrong name or pronouns for a transgender person, are no longer explicitly prohibited.”
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https://www.advocate.com/news/linkedin-transgender-deadnaming-misgendering-policy