Babylon Bee suspended on Twitter for calling Rachel Levine a man

Twitter suspended the account of conservative parody website The Babylon Bee after it tweeted out a headline that deliberately misgendered Rachel Levine, the U.S. Assistant Health Secretary.

The Big Tech platform says the company acted in violation of its hateful conduct policy and that in order to regain account access, the company must delete the Tweet in question. Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon has indicated that he will not delete the original message.

The headline that prompted the lockout was, "The Babylon Bee’s Man Of The Year is Rachel Levine."

"They could, of course, delete the tweet themselves. But they won't. It's not enough for them to just wipe it out. They want us to bend the knee and admit that we engaged in hateful conduct," tweeted Dillon.