UPDATE: Twitter notified Sara Higdon that her appeal request is under review. Higdon has no plans to delete the tweet, and is launching a second appeal.
(PM.) The Trans Against Groomers group’s Director of Communication Sara Higdon had her Twitter account locked on Monday.
A tweet from the group to Twitter owner Elon Musk reads, “our Director of Communications was just locked out of her Twitter account for saying that we shouldn’t stigmatize mental illness?”
.@elonmusk our Director of Communications was just locked out of her Twitter account for saying that we shouldn’t stigmatize mental illness??? pic.twitter.com/bNwvaX3JQb
— Trans Against Groomers (@transagnstgrmrz) December 26, 2022
The tweet in question reads, “it is a mental disorder. I mean when some wiring in your brain makes you feel more comfortable as the opposite sex, that’s an illness. Which I don’t think we should stigmatize mental illnesses either.”
