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Reason
Nick Gillespie

Babylon Bee Won't Back Down Over Trans Joke Twitter Ban

Back in March, Twitter suspended the account of the massively popular Christian satire site The Babylon Bee after it awarded "Man of the Year" honors to Rachel Levine, a trans woman serving in the Biden administration's Department of Health and Human Services and who had been named one of USA Today's "Women of the Year."

The Babylon Bee's editor in chief, Kyle Mann, says that the offending article was intended to satirize media treatment of identity politics, not demean trans people. "We love trans people," he tells Reason. "We don't consider people like that beneath us. You know, the Christian worldview is that everybody has the opportunity to be saved and we can love everybody. I'm no more deserving of God's grace than a transgender person is. But when the culture bows down and starts handing out trophies to people for stuff like this is when we say, 'Hey, wait a minute, you know, we need to protect women in our society as well.'"

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