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This is Jonathan K, Canadian editor for Colette.com.

Last month, Colette podcast listeners heard me interview Megan Murphy, the Vancouver-based

feminist who was banned from Twitter after tweeting criticism of transgender rights

activists whom she regards as abusive in their tactics.

Twitter's actions drew outrage from many sources, including, ironically, some members

of the trans community itself.

This includes Karina Cohn, an Indianapolis-based software developer who

tweets at Karina-C-C-O-C-O-N-N-A-C-O-H-N.

Following Twitter's decision to ban Murphy,

Ms. Cohn wrote a widely circulated Twitter thread

in which is the

is the practice of identifying transgender individuals

by their pre-transition names.

In her thread, Ms. Cohn wrote,

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