Petition updateChange TikTok's Community Guidelines AlgorithmAn Nguyen's Story (a non-binary femme @annguyen_1121)
Rose MontoyaLos Angeles, CA, United States
23 Dec 2020

I have 2 accounts that both got banned for posting body positive and queer-related content. Being AMAB, nonbinary who presents femininely, I was hoping to show the double standard on censorship of women/ the feminine body. 

On my main account, @annguyen_1121, it was mainly this post, in which I used a sound asking "am I a boy, am I a girl..." to essentially proclaim my non-binary identity. I got multiple notifications about this post being removed even after it was restored. Then 3 weeks ago, I received my first 1-week posting ban notice. During that time, the post keeps getting reported again and again. However, the ban didn't stop there. Every week, after the ban lift, I was able to post for about a day, then receive a new post ban, during this period, I didn't get anymore report notifications, which got me really concerned that I will lose my account. I made my backup account at this time just in case.

For my backup account, @anan_1121. It was a series of experiment videos designed to prove the double standard in female body censorship, where I go topless (since I still retain a male body) and increasingly adding more and more feminine features (with long hair, make-up, and clothes). The third video went viral again, and the comment section was having lots of productive conversation about how women body is sexualized. Of course, the reports keep coming in, and eventually give I got banned from posting as well. I also got some very clean video removed due to fake reports as well. Some even comment on my post flaunting that they got my account removed, but I forgot to screenshot it before I removed/block them.

Sadly to prevent my account from being permanently banned, I need to private all of those posts, even after my appeal was approved by TikTok. I hope the system change to disregard reports on approved posts, as well as clear records of those on affected accounts.

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