Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican, was censored by Facebook after she published a post this week that pithily stated that “[b]iological men have no place in women’s sports.”
Published to Blackburn’s personal Facebook page, the post wound up being removed by Facebook on the grounds that it didn’t follow the social media network’s widely criticized “Community Standards on hate speech.”
The senator was not pleased by this act of censorship.
“Big Tech and the Democrats are colluding to radically transform America. They want to silence and censor conservatives for speaking out against their woke agenda. It does not take a biologist to know the difference between a man and a woman, and I will not be silenced or threatened by Silicon Valley oligarchs. Biological men have no place in women sports,” she said in a statement to Fox News.
View a screenshot of the deleted post below:

While the precise motivation behind Blackburn’s post remains unknown, she published it exactly a day after a female skateboarder who lost a Red Bull-sponsored competition to a biological male spoke out about the unfairness of the loss.
In an Instagram post, skateboarder Taylor Silverman revealed that thanks to Red Bull allowing a biological male to compete in its latest Red Bull Cornerstone contest, she and her female peers were denied the prestige and money they’d earned.
“My name is Taylor Silverman. I am a female athlete. I have been skateboarding for eleven years and competing for several years. I have been in three different contests with trans women, two of which I placed second. At the last contest series I did for Redbull, I placed second,” she wrote.
“The trans competitor who won took $1000 in qualifiers, $3000 in finals, and $1000 in best trick. This totaled to $5000 of the prize money meant for the female athletes. I took $1000 in qualifiers and $1750 for second place, so $2750 in total. The girl who took third received $750. The girl who deserved $1000 for best trick took nothing along with whoever would have placed third.”
She concluded the post by saying that she’d deserved to place first and be paid accordingly. She also revealed that she’d tried to reach out to Red Bull, but to no avail.
“I deserved to place first, be acknowledged for my win, and get paid. I reached out to Redbull and was ignored. I am sick of being bullied into silence,” she wrote.
‘I won’t be bullied into silence’: Fuming female skateboarder goes off after trans rival wins competition https://t.co/wVe2EEna4y
— American Wire News (@americanwire_) May 20, 2022
While it’s true that Blackburn has long been an outspoken advocate of protecting women’s sports, the timing of her Wednesday Facebook post suggests that she was motivated by Silverman’s Instagram post.
The senator has also been an outspoken opponent of big tech censorship. Last July, she penned a letter to Democrat President Joe Biden excoriating his administration for teaming up with Facebook to target so-called COVID vaccine “misinformation.”
“I write regarding White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s recent remarks about the White House’s oversight of social media posts it considers problematic or ‘disinformation.’ Ms. Psaki noted that the White House is ‘in regular touch with the social media platforms’ and is ‘flagging problematic posts’ that they believe should be removed relating to COVID-19 and the COVID vaccine. Ms. Psaki also suggested that Americans who are banned from one social media platform should be banned on others,” the letter read.
“These revelations are deeply concerning. The blatant actions by your administration to work with big tech companies to censor Americans’ free speech are shocking – and arguably a violation of the First Amendment. Communist countries such as Cuba are currently taking away their citizens’ right to use the internet to communicate; the U.S. government should be standing up to, not looking to mirror, authoritarian regimes such as these.”
It may perhaps be no coincidence that this Democrat administration stands on the side of transgender activists, particularly around the sports issue.
As soon as Biden took office, for instance, his administration withdrew the Trump-era federal government’s support for a lawsuit brought by three female high school track stars who’d been forced to run against biological males.
Female student athlete blasts Biden admin for withdrawing support of transgender lawsuit https://t.co/8WUG6vVJKu pic.twitter.com/sIYkwc0VFF
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) February 25, 2021
As far as this administration is concerned, biological males who identify as transgender females are no different physically than their biologically female counterparts. Anyone who says otherwise is, therefore, a disseminator of “misinformation.”
It appears that to this administration, biological facts — especially the biological fact that men are on average physically stronger than women — are themselves a form of so-called “misinformation.”
Blackburn for her part staunchly disagrees with this seemingly pseudoscientific mindset.
All this comes roughly a month and a half after Blackburn interviewed University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines, a biological female who was forced to compete against notorious transgender woman Lia Thomas.
Watch:
“The majority of us female athletes, or females in general, really, are not okay with this, and they’re not okay with the trajectory of this and how this is going and how it could end up in a few years,” Gaines says in the video above, referencing the NCAA’s decision to kowtow to the transgender lobby.
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