WTF Wikipedia

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This is the first sentence of the Wiki entry for "Trans woman":

"A trans woman (sometimes trans-woman or transwoman) is a woman who was assigned male at birth."

Eh?

I know Wikipedia is hardly a bastion of truth, but this seems a bit much.

Please keep those screenshots safe. Wikipedia takes that sort of conspiring pretty seriously.

Should Wikipedia HQ be informed?

They're article on "non-binary" is also questionable...

How can JM be trans exclusionary when she was actually trans herself?

She's stepped out of line a couple of times, including once where she failed to punctuate correctly and ISTR implied that she thought she was a "trans woman". TRA Twitter takes a dim view of women saying that.

If I've got the pronoun wrong it is a genuine mistake. I thought she'd gone back to identifying as a woman.

This is how my gendefluid ex used to identify :

Non-binary(AFAB)

Assigned Female At birth

She was NUTS

Wikipedia was a great idea, but those who thought it up failed to acknowledge that it was open to abuse from the start - if anyone can edit it, anyone will, especially an anyone with an agenda. (And not just the transagenda. I expect a lot of political subjects are full of propaganda and shit.) It was optimistic of them - or wilfully blind - to not foresee this sort of thing happening, and taking measures to stop it. Either lock down certain subjects, or plain don't have them. If people won't play nice, Wikipedia could take their ball back and not let them play at all! But no, they allow this garbage to continue.

But, on the plus side it has alerted me to the fact that I absolutely cannot trust one damned thing written on Wikipedia. And that I absolutely will not finance them with donations ever again.

Agree with all that, Where.

MRAs trashed Penelope Leach’s page a while ago because she wrote a book they didn’t agree with.
Wikipedia should sanction anyone who deliberately posts lies to discredit someone.

On the more humorous side, I did read of a professor who deliberately posted misinformation on there, then set his students an essay on the subject.
A good lesson on checking sources and wider reading was learned

ISTR implied that she thought she was a "trans woman"

I remember that. IMO Jack is someone for whom the term 'trans woman' is almost accurate, so obviously that must not be allowed