Bay Area transgender, sex-positive queer-porn site Red Handed Porn (redhandedporn.com) signed up as a client of the AdWords service, only to discover that finding AdWords-approved words to describe their brand (and potential clients' brand identity) meant choosing terminology deeply offensive to most transgender individuals. At the same time, they found that terms chosen as respectful self-labels by the trans culture were rejected by AdWords as -- shockingly -- "teen porn concepts."
"Part of our advertising is with Google, using their AdWords program. We have been having trouble with them since the very beginning, because while they allow really offensive words like 'she-male' to flourish, they won't allow us to use the words that many transfolk use to identify themselves: 'transboi,' 'trannyboy,' 'transgrrrl,' etc. I have contacted them, letting them know that a search within Google will show that these words are never used in child pornography and always refer to trangendered adults. Corporate giants who claim to 'not be evil' should not be promoting hate words."
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The Trannies attacked Google in 2007, under the guise of "sex positivity", "gender identity", "hate speech", and "pro-pornography"
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Don-t-Be-Evil-Or-A-Dyke-Or-Trans-Google-s-3246517.php
Bay Area transgender, sex-positive queer-porn site Red Handed Porn (redhandedporn.com) signed up as a client of the AdWords service, only to discover that finding AdWords-approved words to describe their brand (and potential clients' brand identity) meant choosing terminology deeply offensive to most transgender individuals. At the same time, they found that terms chosen as respectful self-labels by the trans culture were rejected by AdWords as -- shockingly -- "teen porn concepts."
"Part of our advertising is with Google, using their AdWords program. We have been having trouble with them since the very beginning, because while they allow really offensive words like 'she-male' to flourish, they won't allow us to use the words that many transfolk use to identify themselves: 'transboi,' 'trannyboy,' 'transgrrrl,' etc. I have contacted them, letting them know that a search within Google will show that these words are never used in child pornography and always refer to trangendered adults. Corporate giants who claim to 'not be evil' should not be promoting hate words."