Tg Nude is a widely popular Telegram group where users can find provocative and sexually-charged content, as well as connect with those interested in similar topics. Unfortunately, its content has been repeatedly removed by Meta’s human reviewers due to violating their Adult Nudity and Sexual Activity policy – an example that highlights how its policies and enforcement can have detrimental effects specifically for women and transgender individuals.

International human rights law does allow discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics when done on reasonable and objective criteria with a valid objective; however, this policy’s criteria seem questionable to say the least. For instance, its Community Standard specifies “sexually suggestive poses”, including digitally covering breasts or human body parts as “sexually suggestive poses”. Given this group is comprised largely of transgender people, no reasonable person would assume their breasts are sexually suggestive in any way.

As well as this, various public comments have voiced concerns over the presumption that female breasts and nipples are inherently sexual, which was further compounded by human reviewers being mostly men. Therefore, Meta must investigate ways of improving its policies and enforcement to minimize such unintended disproportionate impacts.