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Norrie banned from Facebookfor using the 'T' word

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Sydney’s pioneering gender activist Norrie is hopping mad today after being banned from Facebook for 24 hours after using the controversial ‘T’ word.

Norrie (pictured above) attended the popular Tranny Bingo event in Newtown’s Coopers Hotel yesterday evening, but mentioning it by name on Facebook led to Norrie’s account being closed for 24 hours after someone reported the post.

“We removed something you posted,” Norrie was informed when trying to log into the site this afternoon. “It doesn’t follow the Facebook Community Standards.”

The offending words were specified: ‘Tranny Bingo’.


“Who gives Facebook the right to decide what’s offensive?” a shocked and angered Norrie reacts. “Facebook should be offering a fair and equitable service. As gender-diverse people, we own the word ‘tranny’ and it can be a good and empowering word.”

As far as we know, this is the first time a local Facebook user has been censored by the site for using the term ‘tranny’, a word which some transgender people find offensive. If someone reports a post to Facebook, it’s often processed automatically without a real person looking at it and making a decision.

Norrie knows there’s a Facebook office in Sydney and hopes to visit soon for an explanation about today’s censorship and punishment. Norrie’s not one to be trifled with, having recently won a long court battle for to right to be registered as neither ‘male’ nor ‘female’ in the NSW Registry for Births, Deaths and Marriages.

Back in 2012, Trevor Ashley’s show ‘TrAnnie’ at the Opera House had to re-named after a groundswell of complaints by transgender activists. But there’s been no sign of a name-change by the organisers of Sydney’s various Tranny Bingo events.

“Well, the publicity isn’t doing Tranny Bingo any harm,” Norrie tells Same Same. “It was packed out last night. When people get the numbers, they jump up and yell ‘Tranny Bingo!!’

“It’s lots of fun, and shows that all transgender or sex and gender diverse people are welcomed equally.”

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lordbyronking

lordbyronking said last Tuesday

Congrats on writing a good, flowing article without using a single person pronoun lol

TheOldie

TheOldie said yesterday morning

I wonder if its the word Tranny ?
I've seen articles on Facebook for Transexuals/Transgenders ?
Maybe Tranny is just in the list of banned words ?
Interested to see the outcome Norrie

MrAsh

MrAsh said yesterday morning

I'd like to know whether the Facebook page for Tranny Bingo has been censored as well.

I know from experience when it comes to censorship Facebook isn't consistent.

Domanik

Domanik said yesterday morning

I am somewhat disturbed at this ruling.

The_Freak

The_Freak said yesterday evening

I'm an old Freak and don't use "Face-ache" and "Twatter" but isn't banning Norrie from using the "T" word like ..............

Banning a gay man for using the terms "faggot" and/or "poofter"?? :confused:

And I agree with MrAsh, are there any ads for "T***** Bingo" on "Face-ache"??

Because if there is anywhere on "Face-ache", they're going to be in a lot of trouble I suspect.

And from the things I've read over the years too ...... the last person on this planet I'd want to piss off is Norrie mAy-Welby (no disrespect intended :eek:)

Just saying .......................... :D

Msgen

Msgen said yesterday morning

Cant believe it, The only Time I dislike it if someone uses it to reference me, or if it was used in a derogatory way. In Places Things are getting a bit to PC.

Mama Catastrophe

Mama Catastrophe said yesterday morning

Oh my lord this is just fucking ridiculous. All this nonsense over a word? Words cannot hurt you people. We teach our kids from the earliest age “Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me”, yet somehow as we reach adulthood all this changes and now its ok to go screaming into darkened rooms sobbing our hearts out coz someone called us a bad name. Words do not have power – people give them power. You look at a toddler who repeats the word Fuck for example. That word has no power to that kid until Mummy or Daddy tells them it’s a bad word or they laugh at the little scamp – then it has power. The kid now knows that that word is a naughty word or it can bring a smile to Mummy and Daddy – it now has power. It’s the same with adults. Every time you react to the word or try to censor it – it gains more power. Finally with the assistance of your local PC police telling everyone how they should be offended by these words - these words become so evil that they can’t be spoken or written. They become “the N word” or “the T word” which now gives them now the ultimate power – an insult so vile, loathing and hurtful that it cannot even be written. Sure some of these words have links to discrimination or aren’t very pleasant but they are just fucking words - a group of randomly arranged vowels and consonants that do not have the power to physically, mentally or emotionally harm you unless you let them.

melody

melody said yesterday morning

***Applauds Facebook*** About time!

spansexual

spansexual said yesterday morning

The fun-killing TrannyBan are not just targetting me but also Tranny Bingo, which is the livelihood of many show girls and the highlight of my week. Can anyone slow down the TrannyBan, that is, Melody Moore and Indi Edwards?

spansexual

spansexual said yesterday morning

Ha ha I just checked same same profile of TrannyBan troll Melody.. guess what? She's got no friends ! No, melody, no

Delilah Jayne

Delilah Jayne said yesterday morning

@TheOldie....
There is heaps of pages and groups on Facebook with the word Tranny in it so it's not that. Just do a Facebook search & you get everything to do with Trannies. It's obvious that whoever it was that imposed the ban is Transphobic & in Australia it is a Federal offence.

Delilah Jayne

Delilah Jayne said yesterday morning

@TheOldie....
There is heaps of pages and groups on Facebook with the word Tranny in it so it's not that. Just do a Facebook search & you get everything to do with Trannies. It's obvious that whoever it was that imposed the ban is Transphobic & in Australia it is a Federal offence.

TheOldie

TheOldie said yesterday morning

dont have Facebook Delilah

it was just a thought.....most companies have words that are on a ban list etc

so if other Facebook pages have the word then they have to explain why they deleted it.

Kaley

Kaley said yesterday morning

Go Norrie! You Are Legend! Stand up to these Fascistbook Controllers! I'm behind you 110%.

spansexual

spansexual said yesterday lunchtime

woo hoo, they bumped me again, because I used "tranny" again. another 24 hours off. Oh well, if it's controlled by word police, it's not the place for a free thinker.

mademoisElle

mademoisElle said yesterday lunchtime

They have got to be out of their bloody minds.

Triple Tee

Triple Tee said yesterday evening

Some of us dislike the word and it's connotations, Cross-dressing people are NOT Transgendered people so a clear distinction needs to be made as people Living with Gender Dysphoria make further gains. "tranny" is no longer acceptable ....

Deal With It!

spansexual

spansexual said this morning

Some of us dislike the word and it's connotations, Cross-dressing people are NOT Transgendered people so a clear distinction needs to be made as people Living with Gender Dysphoria make further gains. "tranny" is no longer acceptable ....

Deal With It!

I AM dealing with it.

I will not be separated from my fellow show queens and tranny superstars.

"You are born naked, everything after that is drag."

Gender Dysphoria is a useful label to get medical care, but that doesn't give you a right to impose it on all trannies. I don't have gender dysphoria. I'm a eunuch with a vagina, is that tranny enough to call myself a tranny? And I get the same freak out from binary-obsessives as the "ladies with the lot ;)" who host tranny bingo. I know who my sisters are. It definitely aint you would be word and thought police.

spansexual

spansexual said this morning

The TrannyBan have been beaten by the TARDIS! I'm blocked from posting on Facebook, except for a loophole just discovered where I can share links and edit the accompanying text field. So, I shared a post about the TARDIS in Sydney. I used the TARDIS to breach a dimensional barrier :D

spansexual

spansexual said this morning

Time for new hobby, TrannyBan losers. Facebook's local Head of Policy has advised me (following enquiries through Australia's Human Rights Commissioner and publication of the issue in samesame) that the ban was an error, and will be reversed, and a bit more troll-proofing done to protect public figures from malicious censorship. (Not malicious? Hey, if I gagged you and prevented you from speaking to your friends, wouldn't you judge that action malicious? Silencing trannies is your idea of community activism? FFS >:( )