Elon Musk's X has a new policy that discourages — but doesn't prohibit — anti-trans hate

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, just became a slightly safer space for its transgender users – even if Elon Musk would prefer his right-wing fans not pay too much attention to it.On Thursday, tech news outlet Ars Technica noticed that the Musk-owned social media platform quietly added new rules to its “Abuse and Harassment” policies. Under a newly added section titled “Use of Prior Names and Pronouns,” X added policies that protect the site’s transgender users from misgendering and dead naming harassment.  SEE ALSO: On Threads, users say they’re flooded with pro-life and transphobic posts The new X policy reads as follows:”We will reduce the visibility of posts that purposefully use different pronouns to address someone other than what that person uses for themselves, or that use a previous name that someone no longer goes by as part of their transition. Given the complexity of determining whether such a violation has occurred, we must always hear from the target to determine if a violation has occurred.”Basically, these new rules discourage targeted harassment of individual transgender users by using incorrect pronouns or addressing them by their former name prior to their transition. It should be noted that X is not prohibiting this type of content outright, just making it harder to find. These new policies aren’t perfect but they are certainly welcome additions to X. GLAAD’s senior director of social media safety Jenni Olson told Ars Technica that while the self-reporting mechanism required by the targeted user is not ideal,…Elon Musk's X has a new policy that discourages — but doesn't prohibit — anti-trans hate