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Re:Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @09:36AM (#38190858)
> But I don't think any other angle would make sense, people are the gender they say they are seems to be a very simple policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maria_Penttil%C3%A4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Finnish_female_serial...

Does describing this man as a "Finnish female serial killer" make sense? He is male. This is just factually incorrect.

Any attempts to change this categorisation were reverted, and all discussions about it were removed from the Talk page.

Re:Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @09:12AM (#38190513)
Describing this man as a woman is objectively false. The reality is that he is a man attempting to mimic women, or rather, his idea of what a woman is.

This is just one example of many. Perhaps worse than this, there is very obvious bias on any page or text related to critics of the transgender ideology. Even the Wikipedia page for Woman has been in endless battles over males trying to stake their ideological claim onto it.

As the now-banned female Wikipedia administrator Athaenara put it:

> I think the domination of Wikipedia's woman niche, for lack of a better term, by males masquerading as females as opposed to welcoming actual, genuine, real women who were born and have always been female, is highly toxic.

https://archive.ph/J3wbh#Statement_by_EvergreenFir

Re:Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @09:04AM (#38190429)
Wikipedia policy mandating that this man be described as a woman is bringing gender identity politics into it.
Re:Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @09:01AM (#38190387)
In this case it's more about a particular point of view being forcibly pushed onto everyone else by decree, with no dissent allowed.