Philly reporter Danielle Corcione (who uses they/them pronouns) got their Twitter account suspended for 12 days over what they call a joke that sought to keep “trans exclusionary radical feminists” or “TERFs” out of a prior meme-inspired tweet they posted.

Corcione tweeted “If any TERFs like or retweet this, I’m shoving my foot up your ass,” on June 25, in what they call a reference to That 70’s Show. The prior tweet read “My pronouns are yee/haw.”

“I can see how it could be perceived as a threat but it was a joke,” Corcione told Technical.ly. “I saw cis people tweeting it and I needed to make it absolutely clear that this is a meme that was meant for queer people to share.”

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