About Me

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!

P.S. 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.

A Note to Transphobes

I'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 trans people will continue to live and be born as long as humanity exists, and you'll be remembered as the hateful figures you are.

Userboxes

This user believes in equality for all

This user is an Anarchist.

This user supports anti-fascism.

¡NO PASARÁN!

Wikipedia shall be the tomb of fascism.

This user is a woman.

This user is a trans woman.

This User is Queer/Lesbian and considers gay to be a compliment.

This user is of Central Asian ancestry.

This user is a 1st generation American.

This user is a software engineer.

This user thinks GNU, copyleft, and free software are great ways of promoting a gift economy.

This editor has been awarded the Original Barnstar

This user has created 9 articles on Wikipedia.

This user has written or expanded 1 article featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

Quotes to Edit By

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." - Desmond Tutu

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." - Paolo Freire

"Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things" and "a lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on." "Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness."- Terry Pratchett

"Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future." - Audre Lorde

"If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you're anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude." - Kwame Ture

Articles Worked On/Created

• Articles created are shown in bold

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To-Do List

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 history

People

• Delisa Newton needs expansion [1]
• Sir Lady Java could do with more expansion [2]
• Murray Hall (politician) needs expansion.
• Jenny Savalette de Lange needs to be translated from the french version [3]
• Bunny Eisenhower a founder of the Queens Liberation Front. [4]

* Additionally she was married to Enid Dame which isn't mentioned on her page, which generally needs expansion in it's own right.

• Jim McHarris / James McHarris Black trans man born 1924 [5]

Organizations

• The Transsexual Action Organization [6]. Most sources are already on Angela Lynn Douglas.
• El Colectivo de Travestis y Transexuales (CTT) created 1979 and disappeared soon after [7], and El Colectivo de Transexuales de Catalonia created 1992 [8].

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 therapy

Individuals

• George Rekers needs expansion, mainly his experiments with Ole Ivar Lovaas. For a start his experiments with "gender-variant children" should be described as conversion therapy in the section. See Lovaas's page for some more info
• Ole Ivar Lovaas should contain more about criticism of ABA (which while isn't necessarily a trans topic is still a traumatizing medical attempts at "correcting" deviant behavior like conversion therapy)
• Kenneth Zucker mentions of him being called out as a conversion therapist should be in the lead

Groups

• NARTH, the OG conversion therapy pushing org in the US. Needs mention of trans conversion therapy and general expansion
• Exodus International, should have more mentions of them platforming "ex-trans"/"detrans" people. [9]
• WPATH currently has barely anything on the history of the organization and doesn't explicitly mention that it had conversion therapists on the board and has been mired in various controversies for years (both for being transphobic and too trans supportive funny enough)
• Center For Bioethics and Culture Network (In Progress, not enough sources for an article currently) primarily anti-surrogacy group that also lobbies against trans people.
• Our Duty advocates conversion therapy and forced detransition
• Moms for Liberty add more reference to anti-LGBT activism
• American College of Pediatricians needs an overhaul
• Family Education Trust (In Progress) is an organization known for opposing LGBT rights in the UK
• Partners for Ethical Care (In Progress, not enough sources for an article currently) is an anti-trans organization

General

• Conversion Therapy requires a more in depth overhaul, since trans people are still largely ignored in the article.
• Detransition should honestly look more like Ex-gay movement, we shouldn't be shying away from ideological detransition any more than the political motives and conversion therapy of the ex-gay movement.
• Similarly, Ex-gay movement should include more references to how they started focusing more on trans people (and always included us anyways)

Trans healthcare/science

• Transgender youth needs more info on the various attacks on the rights of trans youth in the US.

So does Transgender rights in the United States and LGBT rights in the United States

• Gender dysphoria, particularly symptoms, is a very outside-in perspective. Decrease importance of gender norms as a superficial indicator and reference more internal experiences. Also remove the subtle blanchardism. Maybe actually mention closeting, which is kinda important...

Tenant Unions

Tenant unions don't get enough coverage or credit, spread some agitprop and let people know about them.

• Crown Heights Tenant Union (In Progress)

See Abolition Notes for a list of tenant unions in the U.S.

Awards and Thanks

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.

Thanks! (R.E.: Gloria Hemingway)

Thank you very much for having my back during the whole Gloria Hemingway debacle! I'm still relatively inexperienced in page editing, & I think a more experienced person like yourself has helped articulate my case in ways I couldn't! Logan Sheppard (talk) 20:10, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

No problem, thanks for having mine! I'm a newbie myself and only joined a month or so ago. The meta commentary and talk page discussions can often reveal individual biases but luckily Wikipedia's guidelines are overall fair and applying the right arguments and references often leads to the truth coming out. Also, fun life hack especially in cases like these, if someone is stonewalling and accuses you of breaking guidelines most often they're breaking the same ones! While writing all that to prove she was a trans woman was draining I'm glad to see it paying off. If you ever need help applying LGBT-related Wiki rules to an article just tag me! TheTranarchist (talk) 20:24, 4 February 2022 (UTC)TheTranarchist

I decided to check up on the page again, & seeing that the page has been moved had me literally tearing up. I can't believe it. I thought this was an insurmountable battle, but it happened! Logan Sheppard (talk) 00:45, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Boots theory

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.

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for your work expanding articles on trans topics, e.g. this and this. Hope you didn't mind my minor alterations to the former edit Endwise (talk) 10:31, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Not at all Endwise (talk · contribs), and thank you! Very proud to get my first barnstar!! TheTranarchist (talk) 22:10, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

I appreciate your work

I appreciate your works on trans topics. I'm trans too but I haven't really edited trans topics before, any recommendations on articles to improve? Immanuelle 💗 (please tag me) 06:56, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello @Immanuelle! Thank you, that means a lot!! I also really like your works in general, Turkic creation myth was really interesting and I might end up helping you out more with things like that. In terms of which trans topics would be good to edit, I've been meaning to add my TODO list to my user page for a while so you were the welcome kick I needed! The to do list is on my main page so please feel free to check it out! TheTranarchist (talk) 16:04, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks and good job

Good job on counterbalancing all the "gender critical" articles that have a disingenuous positive or euphemistic facade\presentation. I'd do the same or would help you out if I had the time and the skills.... –Daveout(talk) 21:08, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you!!! Often it can feel like editing into the void but it's nice to know my work is appreciated! TheTranarchist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 19:18, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

O'Malley: "Wikipedia can be gamed and trans activists use Wikipedia as a way to attack Genspect and myself"

Stella O'Malley complained about the Genspect article, stating: Wikipedia can be gamed and trans activists use Wikipedia as a way to attack Genspect and myself. We are not given the opportunity to argue the points as the moderators always side with trans activists, no matter how many quality references they are supplied with. Consequently, articles by gender extremists such as Lee Leveille, are favoured over the more conventional Sunday Times. - Telling the Truth in a Time of Deceit (Part 1): Stella O’Malley’s Statement on Conversion Therapy - Genspect

Honestly, leave it up to Genspect to

1) not actually state any issues with the article or factually incorrect statements, just vaguely complain about it

2) act like they actually had "quality references" and their editors didn't make thinly veiled homophobic digs at actual references: "@thetranarchrist is quite happy to cite any and every poor quality resource (gay community news)" (I, in this moment christ-like apparently, could only respond "let he who is without sin cast the first stone", as their idea of reliable sources included their own website and Quillette...)

3) be wrong about the contents of the page

4) consider an article full of reliable sources stating things they've done and the fact their positions are contrary to medical consensus as an "attack" (reality hurts)

5) give all the credit to a mythical cabal of trans activists and not myself, who wrote both Genspect and the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, credit where it's due y'know?

That aside, if they're that upset about it, good. Just as good a thanks as any other. "Judge me by the enemies I have made." - FDR

TheTranarchist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 06:29, 11 October 2022 (UTC)TheTranarchist

Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull's Twitter Outrage

So KJK, AKA Nazi Barbie, complained about me and her article here, stating "The defamatory page about me on @Wikipedia @JWalesF has been semi protected and cannot be edited. All edits in the history have been undone. The sad little incels are ensuring the lies remain." Then she tweeted "HINT : the wikipedia entry is made by a rather boastful trancel who enjoys lying about people online." The original post seems to have been after the inclusion of the fact that at her last rally one of her supporters was straight up quoting Hitler. The fact she's so upset brings a quote from Dorothy Parker to mind: "I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true."

Naturally, she hasn't given any examples of lies, since everything in the article is verifiable and true. It wouldn't be allowed to stay up if it wasn't. She just doesn't like reality and thinks if she yells enough it will suddenly change. Frankly, the funniest part is not only does she just mindlessly yell "lies" (which her followers uncritically regurgitate in lockstep, pointlessly swarming the article's talk page), she feels forced to resort to ad-hominems of some 19 year old girl she's never met (which are even funnier when you consider, as my best friend laughed pointing out, I'm poly and have three girlfriends). But hey, attacking trans kids while lying through her teeth and claiming everyone else is the liar is really par for the course. I mean, the same day she lied about a past tweet where she said trans men should be sterilized.

I guess this is all to say, it's touching how annoyed she gets about reality, and deeply satisfying that her whining about factual statements won't change anything at all. Wikipedia runs on verifiable factual information and reliable sources, not the whims of a bigot or her own opinions. I guess in terms of Wikipedia, KJK lost to the truth.

TheTranarchist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 21:49, 20 January 2023 (UTC)TheTranarchist

Useful Tools and Tips

Useful Tools

Wikipedia

• ProveIt: This tool makes citations easy and I can't imagine editing without it. It even automates most of it with only the URL.
• WP:RSP: Allows you to check if a source is considered reliable or not. The source may be listed on the page or you may have to search the archives for past discussions.

Bypassing Paywalls

• Sci-hub: Great tool for accessing scientific articles, sadly Wikipedia won't let me link to it directly
• Library Genesis: Great tool for accessing books, also can't link directly
• https://12ft.io, https://archive.is, and https://archive.org allow you to access paywalled magazines and newspapers most of the time

Tips

Choosing an article topic

Difficult 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 article

1) 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)

2.1) Set an upper and lower bound on article publish dates. Search for results before a date, and push back the date until no articles appear

2.2) Traverse the search by year (ex, results published between 1/1/2010 - 1/1/2011). For each reliable source, copy the source URL and relevant snippets from the article to your local file. I find making a subsection for each year helps organize the document.

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.