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Meta’s oversight board announced that it may lift Facebook and Instagram’s ban on photos of bare breasts.
But there is a catch— the ban will only be lifted for “non-binary” and transgender people.
“The same image of female-presenting nipples would be prohibited if posted by a cisgender woman but permitted if posted by an individual self-identifying as non-binary,” the board said in its decision.
The board noted that there will be “additional nipple-related exceptions based on contexts of protest, birth-giving, after birth, and breastfeeding which it did not examine here, but also must be assessed.”
The decision follows a recent event where Meta overturned a ban on two Instagram posts in which a couple, who identify as transgender and non-binary, posted a photo of themselves topless but with their nipples covered.
The board said that they will rely on “human reviewers” who will “quickly assess both a user’s sex, as this policy applies to ‘female nipples,’ and their gender identity.”
Users of the social media platforms claimed that the previous policy discriminated against “gender-fluid” users.
In a statement to the New York Post, Meta said that it supports the change and welcomes transgenders to “free the nipple.”
“We know more can be done to support the LGBTQ+ community, and that means working with experts and LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations on a range of issues and product improvements… we had reinstated this content before the decision, recognizing that it should not have been taken down,” the statement read.
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