About Me
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Hello Wikipedia! I'm TheTranarchist. As you may have guessed from the portmanteau, I'm a trans woman and an anarchist. I believe all people should be free from hierarchical control and we should care for each other, rather than have our economy and society run on exploitation and oppression. I wear these on my sleeve since all writing is political and what we accept as common knowledge is political. That is to say, before accusing me of being political, ask what politics led to the status quo. A little more about me, I work as a software developer, I'm a student pursuing degrees in Computer Science and Sociology, and my academic research tends to involve combinations of technology and sociology/healthcare/history in addition to extensive archival research. I knew I was trans from a young age but was forced to stay in the closet and was only able to transition at 16. I've always loved Wikipedia, as a resource, concept, and joint venture to collaborate to help educate all and provide a free compendium of global knowledge. Since I was a little kid I've loved jumping around WP links and gorging myself on knowledge about history, math, science, engineering, politics, and anything I could find. Teachers and professors always told me not to use it, but consistently it was a wonderful starting point for research into most fields. Now, I strive to help grow the pool of knowledge with all of you. What sparked me finally joining Wikipedia was realizing the current state of articles surrounding transgender topics. Specifically, seeing that the Conversion therapy article made no references to transgender people, despite it having been defined for years to include us. Knowing firsthand how often trans kids or parents of trans kids come looking for information on Wikipedia, it's vital the information we provide is accurate. Trans children are not a modern invention and deserve care and support, and part of that is knowing their history. Trans kids should be able to know they exist and have existed. About their histories and their elders' organized struggle for a better world. And the history and present of the organized hate campaigns operating against us. This applies generally, while my focus is on trans topics (having had to self-educate to justify my existence and wanting to help ease the burden of those who come after me), I want to help bring to light other neglected history as well. I believe the truth when simply presented will speak for itself: that greed and power corrupt and lead to terrible things, that cooperation and kindness are human and essential to our survival, and that all should be free. As such, I'm proud to collaborate and work with you all! A Note to TransphobesI've written articles on quite a few organizations and people who attack trans people, so I want to add a personal touch. Trans people and children exist. By any means necessary, we will fight those who work to harm us by attacking our rights and bodily autonomy. On Wikipedia, I feel no shame combatting your propaganda and exposing you, your claims are nonsense and disproven anyways, and luckily investigative journalism isn't completely dead so reliable sources tend to do the heavy lifting in showing how awful you are. Please enjoy knowing that tranhis people will continue to live and be born as long as humanity exists, and you'll be remembered as the hateful figures you are. |
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To-Do List
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There's a lot of overlap here but here are various To Do items vaguely organized with starting sources. Please feel free to get to these before I do! Trans historyPeople
Organizations
If in doubt, many famous transgender people and groups not on Wikipedia are mentioned on A Gender Variance Who's Who, which serves as a excellent jumping point for research. History of conversion therapyIndividuals
Groups
General
Trans healthcare/science
Tenant UnionsTenant unions don't get enough coverage or credit, spread some agitprop and let people know about them.
See Abolition Notes for a list of tenant unions in the U.S. |
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To be frank, I spend a lot of my time on Wikipedia writing about groups that insult and call for violence against people like me, and I read a lot of depressing news to do so. I don't edit for thanks, but they do go a long way and are greatly appreciated. On 3 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Boots theory, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that according to the "boots" theory, poverty is more expensive than being rich? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Boots theory. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Boots theory), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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My GENSEX Hiatus
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After a grueling month-long ordeal at ANI started by a blocked sockpuppet that grew longer than the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I was banned from WP:GENSEX (anything even tangentially LGBT related) for a minimum of 6 months. A brave soul asked for a close review, but that doesn't seem like it's gaining traction. I feel the ban was disproportionate, as all issues raised were specifically about anti-trans WP:BLPs/WP:ORGs, with nothing but support for my GENSEX editing outside the intersection (and even a lot within the intersection). About half called for a full GENSEX ban, half spoke against it, and many in the middle or on either side supported targeted BLP/ORG restrictions. C'est la vie I suppose. Until then, I'm out of GENSEX and proving myself in other areas of the encylopedia. If you see this and have respect for the work I did, please give the articles I wrote a follow. Clean them up, copy-edit them, update them with new information, protect them from vandalism, keep out WP:WHITEWASHing, WP:POVPUSHING and WP:FRINGE nonsense, and generally take care of them as you see fit in my stead. I have never wanted anything less than for them to be collaboratively created and fully encyclopedic. Somehow, despite the hell it normally is for anyone to edit in the GENSEX area, let alone as a trans woman in a world where the current political climate around trans people is getting steadily more genocidal (a term I don't use lightly), I'll miss editing there. See you again someday. TheTranarchist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 20:02, 5 March 2023 (UTC)TheTranarchist
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Honorable Mentions
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Here, I keep substantial mentions of me off-wiki. This includes both positive coverage (which I hadn't seen coming) and people complaining their articles are so honest it makes them look bad. Stella O'Malley complained about the Genspect article, stating: Honestly, leave it up to Genspect to
TheTranarchist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 06:29, 11 October 2022 (UTC)TheTranarchist So KJK, complained about me and her article here, stating Neither she nor any of the vandals who tried to edit the page after her tweet (a wave resulting in the page being protected) ever actually gave any examples of lies. This probably explains why she felt forced to resort to ad-hominems of some 19-year-old girl she's never met (which are even funnier when you consider I'm poly and just how far off the mark "incel" was). I guess in terms of Wikipedia, KJK lost to the truth and reliable sources. TheTranarchist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 21:49, 20 January 2023 (UTC)TheTranarchist The Atlantic on Gloria HemingwayI would have missed this but saw a mention on Talk:LGBT and Wikipedia - apparently, I made the Atlantic! Did not see that one coming. To be fair, given their general coverage of trans topics, I expected them to be a lot more critical if they were ever going to write about me... Regardless, the article goes over how the article on Gloria Hemingway was updated to use her chosen name instead of her deadname and states:
Overall it seemed a balanced article, but two quick notes are worth mentioning. First, it has actually been vandalized since then a few times, but was swiftly reverted. Second, both the decision to close and a defense of the close in the appeal noted that one editor rudely opposed the move by accusing me of being a single purpose account here to right great wrongs using original research without acknowledging the policies in question... Wish they'd reached out for comment though, y'know?
Gays Against Groomers, whose acronym matches what most people do when they think of them, made a whole thread about how mad they are at Wikipedia:
It goes without saying, everything is reliably sourced and verifiable. Nobody's ever accused them of being original (I mean, they basically just copied Libs of TikTok), so I wonder how long it will take them to say the article was written by a "groomer" or other such nonsense. TheTranarchist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 23:49, 11 February 2023 (UTC)TheTranarchist |
Useful Tools and Tips
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Useful ToolsWikipedia
Bypassing Paywalls
TipsOPSECSome good guides are available here, here, and here. Some quick notes for Wikipedia:
Choosing an article topicDifficult at the best of times, and up to you. I find my time on Wikipedia is best suited to 1) documenting anti-trans groups and activists and 2) documenting trans rights groups and activists. Generally, Wikipedia can be a wonderful tool for shedding light on both those who fight to make the world better and those who fight to make it worse. We need to know about both. This is not contrary to WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS, as both tend to be covered in reliable sources. Writing an article1) Create a local text file to hold all your info (I personally love emacs org-mode for this). Create a sources section and an article section. 2) Use google news to find exact matches of the name or organization (for example, searching "Genspect", with quotes, shows you all exact matches)
3) Check google scholar, there are normally less sources, so you may not need to iterate over custom date ranges. Similarly add URLs and snippets to your article 4) With all your sources now collected, review them. Tag them to make it easier to write the document (ex: for an anti-trans organization, tags such as conversion-therapy, legislation, etc make it easier to write the document) 5) Write the article at the bottom of the file. Go through your sources, marking them as done when you've included the relevant information into the article. For now, simply use URLs as references. 6) Draft in Wikipedia. Here, you make sure all your formatting and grammar is in order, and you convert the URLs to the proper Wikipedia reference format (see ProveIt). This also allows you to see how the article will look when published. 7) Publish. Congratulations, you have now written a Wikipedia article! Of note, steps 1-5 don't always result in a Wikipedia article. If an organization or person does not meet WP:NOTABILITY, you may have to wait to publish until more sources cover them. However, having a local draft and list of sources make it easier to publish the article when the requirements are met. |
Contact Me
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If you're looking to thank me, looking to tip me off to a good article subject, just want to send some hatemail (which I will probably list as an Honorable Mention), or are press seeking comment:
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Please note, I neglected to check if my online moniker was unique before choosing it, so the only other place I use it is the Mastodon account I created after joining Wikipedia: kolektiva.social/@TheTranarchist. I.e, any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.