Punching Down: Bad Satire & the Cost to Transgender Folks
4 min readMar 21, 2022
Over the weekend, the conservative Christian satire The Babylon Bee found itself amidst controversy when Twitter informed them that their account would be locked for violating community guidelines. The tweet in question was about an article that named U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health and doctor, Admiral Rachel Levine the satire site’s “Man of the Year” for 2022. Dr. Levine, who was also…