Former GOP congressional candidate locked out of Twitter for gender spectrum meme: 'This is like 1984'
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Former Republican congressional candidate Mario Fratto said he was locked out of his Twitter account after he posted a meme suggesting that there are only two genders.
Fratto, who ran for Congress last year in New York's 24th Congressional District, had posted a meme showing two circles representing the male and female genders with two other circles overlapping marked "mental illness." Jon Brown is a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to jon.brown@fox.com.
The post was marked as hateful, but Fratto compared his suspension to Orwellian censorship and said he refused to delete the tweet because it would violate his beliefs on biological sex.
"I just feel like I'd be compromising my principles if I sit here and say, 'OK, I'll just take it down because it's hateful or whatever it is,'" Fratto said. "Because I don't believe that. I think it's just an honest statement of fact, which also is a personal belief."