Stop Meta from Censoring Clitoris

Recent signers:
Wendy Linton and 19 others have signed recently.

The Issue

Trump can say the word pussy but I cannot name my organ on Instagram. 

 

In March 2026, Bellesa, a women's sexual wellness company with over 700,000 followers, had its Instagram account deleted. Not for explicit content but for using the word clitoris. In March alone, more than 100 queer, reproductive health accounts have been censored (according to the documentation of @reprouncensored). 

 

Meta's content moderation systems systematically suppress anatomical language that names pleasure in bodies like ours while allowing language that frames those same bodies as objects of violation. Educators, health professionals, and sexual wellness advocates are routinely shadowbanned, demonetized, or deleted for naming body parts that appear in any medical textbook. Meanwhile, content that degrades, diminishes, or violates women's bodies circulates without consequence.

 

The clitoris is anatomy. It is the only human organ whose sole known function is pleasure and the fact that its name is treated as more dangerous than a confession of sexual assault tells us exactly what these platforms think of women's bodies.

 

This matters beyond one company's account. Instagram and Facebook are where millions of women access health information, find community, and build livelihoods. When Meta silences the language of women's anatomy, it erases the educators, the advocates, and the survivors who use accurate language to reclaim their own bodies.

 

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has the power to change this now. We are calling on Meta to immediately revise its content moderation policies to stop censoring anatomical and medical language related to female bodies, restore accounts penalized for using accurate anatomical terms, and establish transparent, equitable standards that do not discriminate based on whose anatomy is being named.

 

We deserve to speak the names of our own bodies without punishment.

 

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Recent signers:
Wendy Linton and 19 others have signed recently.

The Issue

Trump can say the word pussy but I cannot name my organ on Instagram. 

 

In March 2026, Bellesa, a women's sexual wellness company with over 700,000 followers, had its Instagram account deleted. Not for explicit content but for using the word clitoris. In March alone, more than 100 queer, reproductive health accounts have been censored (according to the documentation of @reprouncensored). 

 

Meta's content moderation systems systematically suppress anatomical language that names pleasure in bodies like ours while allowing language that frames those same bodies as objects of violation. Educators, health professionals, and sexual wellness advocates are routinely shadowbanned, demonetized, or deleted for naming body parts that appear in any medical textbook. Meanwhile, content that degrades, diminishes, or violates women's bodies circulates without consequence.

 

The clitoris is anatomy. It is the only human organ whose sole known function is pleasure and the fact that its name is treated as more dangerous than a confession of sexual assault tells us exactly what these platforms think of women's bodies.

 

This matters beyond one company's account. Instagram and Facebook are where millions of women access health information, find community, and build livelihoods. When Meta silences the language of women's anatomy, it erases the educators, the advocates, and the survivors who use accurate language to reclaim their own bodies.

 

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has the power to change this now. We are calling on Meta to immediately revise its content moderation policies to stop censoring anatomical and medical language related to female bodies, restore accounts penalized for using accurate anatomical terms, and establish transparent, equitable standards that do not discriminate based on whose anatomy is being named.

 

We deserve to speak the names of our own bodies without punishment.

 

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Mark Zuckerberg
Founder and CEO at Facebook

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Petition created on April 17, 2026