On Wednesday, as news of Meta’s new guidelines permitting homophobic and transphobic speech on its platforms spread through the company, Loredana Cr

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2025-01-14 08:30:05

On Wednesday, as news of Meta’s new guidelines permitting homophobic and transphobic speech on its platforms spread through the company, Loredana Crisan spoke up to defend them.

As she would tell employees in a previously unreported internal post obtained by Platformer, Crisan, who took over as Meta’s Vice President in charge of Facebook Messenger in 2022, is the parent of a non-binary child. The same year she took over Messenger, she took part in a panel discussion posted to Meta’s official LGBTQ+ page celebrating International Non-Binary People’s Day.

Under the company’s new content policies, moderators were told to begin allowing dehumanizing speech such as "This whole nonbinary thing is made up. Those people don't exist, they're just in need of some therapy."

“I know these examples are difficult to read — they sure are for me,” wrote Crisan, who is also a sponsor of Meta’s LGBTQ employee resource group. “That said, it's important to separate what we believe is right from what can be said on our platforms. Honestly, as a parent of a non-binary kid, I want nothing more than for my child to be seen and accepted. But I recognize that shutting down all speech I might find hurtful can have the opposite effect. At best, the lack of dialog changes no hearts. At worst, it hardens them. I know we're all hurting from LGBTQ+ rights being politicized for so long, but I also know that our platforms have given all of us a voice and will continue to do so.”