Sonia Poulton is a journalist who has made numerous attacks on the trans community, using Twitter as a platform to spread misinformation and anti-trans propaganda. She uses concern for cis women and children's safety to further implant ideas of the trans community being dangerous to her audience with little to no research to back up her arguments. For example, her latest tweet reads 'The same people pushing for men to be in women's sports, refuges, changing rooms & taking our awards, are the same ones pushing for children to be sexualised and brainwashed at schools and later medicalised & more. This is not a coincidence. It's a war on women & children' - exact word for word tweet. I could list everything wrong with this tweet but we will be here forever. Understandably, she has not mentioned the trans community, however, if you dig further into her Twitter feed and various interviews she did on the topic, it is very clear that this is a part of her anti-trans messaging. This one tweet already conflicts with Twitter's Rules and policies. On paragraph 12, under Inciting fear about a protected category of the Hateful conduct policy found on the Twitter Help Center, it reads:

'We prohibit targeting individuals with content intended to incite fear or spread fearful stereotypes about a protected category, including asserting that members of a protected category are more likely to take part in dangerous or illegal activities, e.g., "all [religious group] are terrorists"'

One of the many things Twitter tries to combat is portrayed in that very tweet and many others on Poulton's handle. Let's remember that she is a verified member and is in clear violation of the terms of service, and has been for years. I would argue her behaviour is similar to Graham Linehan (who was recently removed from Twitter for hateful conduct) as she takes advantage of the Twitter platform to dehumanise, spread false information and raise fear about an already stigmatised group... and she also has voiced support for him and dismay about him getting removed from Twitter, more evidence that the strives to achieve a transphobic network, as well as showing support for transphobic hate groups like 'Standing for Women" and 'Get the L Out'. It is my goal to remove voices like this to stand up for my transgender brothers and sisters and say "this will not be tolerated".

This does not remove her right of free speech, it strengthens our right to stand up to prejudice. It is 2020 and we shouldn't be afraid to call this behaviour out. She absolutely has a right to freedom speech and talk about whatever she wants to whoever she wants but like all of us, she does not have the right of freedom of consequence, and the consequence for trying to normalise and spread transphobia is to take away the platform that she primarily uses to do that.