Daily Wire podcast host Candace Owens announced on Sunday that YouTube suspended her account because of her commentary about transgender issues.

In an Instagram video, Owens said YouTube imposed a temporary ban on her channel, and said the lockdown was a result of a review of videos in which she refers to trans-identifying people by their biological sex and showcases people who have expressed remorse over undergoing transgender surgeries. Owens blamed YouTube’s “very opaque policies” for multiple strikes against her account and noted a suspension could last a week or more.

YouTube’s crackdown is a symptom of the latest “globally sanctioned lie” centered on gender ideology, Owens said. Previous cases of narrative-driving falsehoods centered around the Black Lives Matter movement and COVID, but gender ideology is particularly “insidious” because it targets children, Owens added.

A post Owens made to Twitter summarized what she talked about on Instagram.

‼️It’s true, my YouTube account has been suspended and here is what I have to say:

We don’t know exactly what or who is the driving force behind globally-sanctioned lies, but what we do know is that over the past five years, the prevailing lies of the day have shifted… https://t.co/1TqAyM717O

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) June 11, 2023

Refusing to back down, Owens said she believes truth-tellers will be “vindicated” in the end. In the meantime, Owens said she will make more announcements this coming week and will continue to post videos from her show to Twitter, where the host said Musk appears to be open to allowing “true speech” for open debate.

Owens also encouraged supporters to subscribe to her YouTube channel, saying a surge in followers during her suspension would help to “stick it” to the platform.

Owens is not alone in being penalized by YouTube, as The Daily Wire has taken a firm line against the radical transgender craze, especially when it comes to minors being subjected to irreversible chemical and even surgical treatments.

Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing announced Sunday evening that a number of accounts associated with his company have received 104 violations for “Hateful and Derogatory” content on Youtube over the past 90 days, mainly directed at commentary about transgender issues.

Beyond Owens’ page, accounts for Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, Brett Cooper, and Jordan Peterson have all received violations, Boreing said. Penalties include Walsh being demonetized last month, Owens and Knowles being suspended for seven days after receiving a “second strike,” and Peterson getting his “first strike.” Three strikes in 90 days and an account gets deleted, Boreing noted.

The Daily Wire reached out to YouTube seeking comment on the thread, but did not immediately receive a reply.

Peterson, a DailyWire+ contributor, said on Saturday that YouTube had removed a video — in which he and author Helen Joyce discuss gender ideology — for allegedly violating the platform’s “hate speech policy.” In a series of tweets, Peterson said, “To say I am tired of being accused in this manner by narcissistic authoritarians is to say almost nothing.” He ended up posting the full video to Twitter at Twitter owner Elon Musk’s behest. 

Former President Donald Trump raged at his former Attorney General William Barr over the weekend after Barr gave a brutal assessment of the 37-count federal indictment Trump now faces.

Barr, who repeatedly defended Trump throughout the course of his administration and took his side against the indictment from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, told “Fox News Sunday” that the former president was “toast” if even half the things in the federal indictment are proven in court to be true.

“It’s a very detailed indictment and it’s very, very damning,” Barr said. “And this idea of presenting Trump as a victim here, or a victim of a witch hunt, is ridiculous. Yes, he’s been a victim in the past. Yes, his adversaries have obsessively pursued him with phony claims. And I’ve been at his side defending against them when he is a victim. But this is much different. He’s not a victim here.”

Trump first responded by writing on social media: “Virtually everyone is saying that the Indictment is about Election Interference & should not have been brought, except Bill Barr, a ‘disgruntled former employee’ & lazy Attorney General who was weak & totally ineffective.”

“He doesn’t mean what he’s saying, it’s just MISINFORMATION,” Trump wrote. “Barr’s doing it because he hates ‘TRUMP’ for firing him. He was deathly afraid of the Radical Left when they said they would Impeach him. He knows the Indictment is Bull…. Turn off FoxNews when that ‘Gutless Pig’ is on!”

Barr said during the interview that the Russiagate hoax was created to “knock [Trump] out with a false claim,” but cautioned that this case is very different.

“Here, I think the government acted responsibly,” Barr said. “They gave him every opportunity to return those documents. They acted with restraint. They were very deferential to him. And they were very patient. They talked to him for almost a year to try to get those documents and he jerked them around. They finally went to a subpoena, and what did he do? According to the government, he lied and obstructed that subpoena. And then they did a search, and they found a lot more documents.”

Trump continued his attacks on Barr during an interview on “The Roger Stone Show” on 77 WABC, calling Barr a “low life.”

Mediaite noted though that Trump had his limits in attacking Barr and refused to say that Barr was part of “the Deep State” when asked about it.

“I think he’s a coward who didn’t do his job,” Trump said. “We had unbelievable people as you know, in the administration, but we also had some that we got wrong and Bill Barr was a mistake. And you know, too bad — but he was a mistake.”

“And now he goes and he sits down — if they can find a chair for him, because it’s not that easy — and he sits down and he just bloviates and it’s disgraceful,” Trump said. “It’s actually unpatriotic. It’s so bad for our country, just so bad. But, you know, he’s got a lot of hatred.”

“When I talk about a slob like Bill Barr, just a stupid person in a lot of ways, this is really not the standard,” Trump said.