On Twitter, criticising homophobic and transphobic abuse gets you banned

I’ve been locked out of my Twitter again, yet again under their “hateful conduct" rules, yet again because they have misinterpreted references I made to homophobic and transphobic harassment of a friend as me being homophobic.

These tweets were responding to a Transphobic and Homophobic hate campaign being faced by Grace Lavery:

https://twitter.com/graceelavery/status/1429882141828079616

I’d be less bothered if not for the fact that in the last few days my account has faced a very large number of people tweeting at me celebrating the killing of a trans teen 20 miles away from where I live. Countless angry men just reveling, often in coded ways which Twitter moderation invariably find to be “not a violation”, in the satisfaction of having one less trans girl in the world. In fact I believe this negative attention from far right transphobic accounts is likely the source of the malicious reporting campaign against me digging up tweets from 2 years ago to get me removed while piling my notifications full of celebrations of trans death.

It would be harder to complain about over eager moderation if it actually stopped extremist behaviour, but it doesn’t even do that. It just serves as a baton for the enforcement of violently transphobic and homophobic beliefs against those of us LGBT people using the site.