
== The life of a polymorph perverted trannfag == Just when Konrad Adenauer left this world, I arrived. On my birthday, Hair had its premiere, but nothing of ''that'' reached the small Eifel village in Germany, where I grew up. That was a place where ''decent'' people lived, not some long-haired Red Army Faction, who wanted to bomb all decent people out of this world! Which is why all long-haired guys belonged, for reasons of security and order, into working camps, anyway — and that was the liberal position. And that was the reason I asked myself rather early in my life whether I really belonged there. My whole bunch of relatives asked themselves the very same question, too. Especially since all attempts to make me into a ''proper'' girl seemed not too successful, either. They were right about that. They had no idea, just how right they were. Should have listened to me, I've always said so! In the same year when half a million people protested in Bonn against the brilliant idea of both NATO and the Soviet Union to station cruise missiles in Germany whose main targets were in Germany, I moved, together with my mother, to Cologne, and with that into a somewhat more liberal environment. (For those who don't know quite so much about cruise missiles supposed to drop on ''my'' head, that was the year of the Falkland war, too.) Anyway, living in Cologne, I met strange people with long hair - at school! I started to listen to strange music - Rolling Stones! I encountered strange political opinions and made a brief excursion into communism. The strangest thing however was my brilliant idea that a lot of my problems came from being not feminine enough. The phase that followed looked, in retrospect, a lot like Drag. But nobody can say I didn't try! While in the USSR Glasnost and Perestroika began, I got my own freedom, namely from school (and, Ms. Teacher: I never missed it - not for a second!), and I got my own flat, too. In the following years I was a student of philosophy, science of religion and English literature. I spent a lot of time, though, studying music by listening to a couple of very good local bands, and studying social sciences by observing and interacting with people at a local pub. At that point, I was still trying to suppress my constantly growing discomfort with myself and the rest of the world by attempting to become my own ideal of femaleness. A goal I reached about the same time Yugoslavia began to break up. Because when I reached it, I realised that I had been on the wrong road all along, and my life began to break up, too. As a consequence, my interest in general politics somewhat waned, while I stumbled headlong into (trans-)gender politics. Now mind you, nobody called it gender politics or transgender politics back then, at least not in Germany. At that time, you were either a proper transsexual, or you were nothing. I - and a growing number of other people, too - had a feeling that while it was a good thing to escape from one set of "proper behaviour" that just did not fit, simply dropping into another one, and one that was even more narrow into the bargain, was not a solution. That rather obvious realisation (obvious once you allow yourself to think about it, that is) lead me right into transgender politics. I even became a founding member of an organisation for transman and have worked for changes in the German "transsexual law". Who could have possibly predicted that when I was born? [http://www.alexhere.de My Homepage] ---- == Oh yes, the Wikipedia == User:Reene,_hereby_award_AlexR_the_Wiki_Wiffle_Bat_for_his_general_awesomeness_and_the_ability_to_stand_his_ground_despite_tedious_opposition.">Image:Wifflebat.png|right|frame|I, User:Reene, hereby award AlexR the Wiki Wiffle Bat for his general awesomeness and the ability to stand his ground despite tedious opposition. [[Image:20000 graveyard.jpg|thumb|User:Rama/Nemo of honour: for excellent and courageous work on Opus Dei.]] I used to be quite active in the German Wikipedia until I found the climate unfavourable to my health. While I used to stick to the articles listed on the List of transgender-related topics in the English one, by now I am a lot more active here. ==Other stuff== Find here the ongoing series of /Edits that are so stupid that they deserve to be preserved May I also recommend jEdit with the Wikipedia plug-in for editing Wikipedia? Java, so it should run on every computer, syntax highlighting for wiki markup (and lots of other stuff), shortcuts for formating, and lots more. No need of a browser at all, open and safe directly from jEdit. And of course it is free and GNU. * [http://www.jedit.org/ jEdit] * [http://www.djini.de/software/mwjed/index.html Wikipedia plug-in]
Moved lots of stuff to archive: * 23.Oct.2004: /Archive 10 2004 (In fact, this time I moved everything ;-) ---- == Response? == Hi, Alex, I hope to be able to make progress on the cross-dressing article, and to do so I want to step around certain distractions that trouble both of us. Could you please respond on the cross-dressing discussion page to my last question to you? (The one above the line where the distracting material appears. ;-) ) Thanks. User:Patrick0Moran 16:17, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I wonder what distraction you are talking about. The only ''other'' thing that is being debated seems to be more important than ... errr ... that famous sack of rice in China? The colour of Bush's underwear? Uh, now I am being nasty ... but to some it seems certainly more important than correct and NPOV articles. Oh well ... :I did not manage to respond to you in the morning because I was a bit in a hurry to get to my father, and since I helped him repairing the roof today, I am too tired to get together a complete answer. But don't worry, it isn't forgotten, it might just become a longish answer. ;-) -- User:AlexR 19:43, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC) ==Insulting== I'm willing and eager to accept your truce on Heteronormativity and other articles. However, I would ask one thing - please try to assume good faith on the part of other people. I know Hyacinth, and I know he means well. He is not trying to be insulting. He saw a conflict and made a genuine and sincere effort to resolve it. The fact that you find his attempted resolution unacceptable really shouldn't be a cause for calling the effort insulting. I assure you, there was no malice behind it. User:Snowspinner 03:53, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC) ==Mediation== Hello Alex. Ambi has heard from AWilliamson, and I have contacted him to start mediation. Please could you email me and let me know the situation so far, and how mediation might be able to help. My address is sannse (a) tiscali.co.uk Please also read Wikipedia:Confidentiality during mediation and let me know if you are happy with this. Thanks -- User:Sannse User talk:Sannse 22:23, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC) (mediation committee) ==Autobiography (album)== Please stop your reverts on Autobiography (album). They are getting on my nerves. User:Everyking 05:56, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC) :Well, how about stoping your edits, which are appreciated by no one but yourself? They are getting on several people's nerves. -- User:AlexR 14:34, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Article Licensing == Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information: *User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered *Wikipedia:Multi-licensing *User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
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There's a reason for everything, AlexR. In this case, the reason was carelessness on my part. I clicked on the first Hormone replacement therapy link and saw that the article mentioned use of HRT "by transgendered or transsexual people", and so assumed that the second link lead to the same article. My apologies. -- User:Picapica 19:20, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC) :Happens to the best of us - only on deletions like this, from experience I am ready to assume the worst. My appologies, too. -- User:AlexR 08:05, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Thank you... == for your help on IRC the other night. If there's ever anything I can do to help you out, please let me know. User:Kc9cqj 10:48, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Youve got mail! == For letting me know how to upload multiple images I here by ward you the WikiThanks unit. == Gender identity-role article == I noticed your remark in your edit summary to minor changes to the G-I/R article. I think the reason the article is there is to serve as an acknowledgement that according to Money's analysis the two terms "gender identity" and "gender role" are pretty thoroughly intertwined. Probably anything that tends to anchor the understanding (and definitions) of these critical terms should be kept. There are so many people around who use "gender" as a sort of euphemism for "sex" and otherwise indiscriminantly fling these terms around that anything that encourages people to learn the history of the terms, the reasons they came into existence, etc., is a plus. User:Kim 金 05:07, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) == POV == Fine, but I think the article, either way, has serious POV issues. — User:Philwelch ''User_talk:Philwelch'' 02:53, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC) In response to your remark: :Would you kindly stop making those stupid and incorrect edits to transwoman? It is obvious that you have no clue about gender assignments, so stop putting BS into the article, or you might find yourself treated as a vandal. I'm not familiar with the theory, but you're presenting POV as fact and being bold as vandalism. :For example, one is not born in any sex One is ''definitely'' born with a set of sex chromosomes and genitalia. There is established POV that states that sex is a matter of genetics and anatomy. :there are debates whether transgender people are clearly one sex My edits have never made a factual statement either way about that issue. :and intersex people can get assigned another gender at any time, not only shortly after birth. Fair enough. :And, the most basic thing: You may have something hanging between your legs, but what gets into the papers is not put there by said thingy, but by people - namely, doctors, midwifes and/or parents. What gets into the papers, according to your POV, decides or "assigns" one's sex. I assert that in most cases, it is simply an empirical observation of a pre-existing biological condition that is recorded. But this is a matter of POV, not fact--as editors, we must often be careful not to confuse the two. — User:Philwelch ''User_talk:Philwelch'' 03:14, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Transsexual== Hi Alex, You just said, :"since gender variant behaviour is seen by proponents or reparative therapy as an extreme form of homosexuality (a view that long has disappeared from scientific discourses)." on the above page. It's most certainly a view which is rapidly losing favour but, as you know, it's one of the two views expounded by Bailey, Blanchard et. al. Now, I'm not a big fan of B&B (at all!!!) but stating what you did isn't totally NPOV. Unfortunately, scientific discourses are ''still'' propounding this stance - bogus as it may be. Comments? - User:PcassidyUser_talk:Pcassidy 09:01, 6 May 2005 (UTC) :One could include a "most" or even a "serious" or "widely accepted" there, if needed - one might also argue, though, that B&B are not exactly part of the ''scientific'' discourse - they don't really fit any definition of science I have ever heard ;-) -- User:AlexR 11:02, 6 May 2005 (UTC) ::True, true :-) I'd say in the interests of broad factuality, maybe change it to 'most' or 'almost all'. There ''are'' BB&L fans out there that would probably jump on the chance to scream "POV", whereas I feel the point you made is very valid to the article and needs to be stated. Note also that HBIGDA as a whole don't seem to have a lot of time for reparative therapy - User:PcassidyUser_talk:Pcassidy 12:00, 6 May 2005 (UTC) :: Oh, and it should read "a view that has long since disappeared" (grammar) - User:PcassidyUser_talk:Pcassidy 12:21, 6 May 2005 (UTC) ::: Notice the update - thanks, Alex! - User:PcassidyUser_talk:Pcassidy 16:56, 6 May 2005 (UTC) == :Category:Gay, lesbian or bisexual people == There's a discussion (here: Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 May 4) on changing the name of :Category:Gay, lesbian or bisexual people to :Category:Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender people. I know you've been active on a lot of the trans-related pages, and there's some concern over whether to use "transgender people" or "transgendered people" or some other variant. I'm sure you get sick of these sorts of issues, but if you're at all interested, I'd be grateful if you'd pop on by and give us some guidelines. -User:Sethmahoney 21:06, May 6, 2005 (UTC) Hello. I encourage you to visit Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 May 7#Gay, lesbian, and bisexual / LGBT occupational categories. (Wikipedia really needs a GLBT noticeboard for stuff like this.) User:Jonathunder 06:21, 2005 May 8 (UTC) :Inspired by Jonathunder's idea, I have created a Wikipedia:LGBT noticeboard. Please take a look. -- User:SamuelWantman 07:03, 8 May 2005 (UTC) == User:AlexR/temp == ...is currently poking into various main namespace categories. If this draft is no longer needed, should it be deleted? Either way, it should be removed from the categories it's currently in, to Wikipedia:Avoid self-references. -- User:Beland 03:43, 7 May 2005 (UTC) ==Günter Dörner== I assume you know who he is. What is his reputation in Germany these days? Among LGBT communities? I remember some articles from the gay community in the 70s or 80s lambasting his ideas and research. I assumed he was long-dead, but recently ran across a recent article [PMID 11781536]. Although he takes pains to disavow prejudice and intolerance, he seems to pretty clearly consider such variations as "transsexualism" a result of pathologic processes to a greater degree than anyone in North America has been willing to express in a scientific publication, attributing them to pernicious environmental influences such as endocrine disrupters like DDT or stress. On the other hand, to that same reference is appended his resolution to the WHO that "homosexuality not be regarded as a disease or a mental disorder." Since I gather his idea of a biological basis of LGBT conditions has found more favor in those communities than it used to, is he considered sympathetic or an ally despite his calls to "prevent" those? There is no hidden agenda in my question, just curiosity, and I assume this is a topic you are familiar with. He is the only German researcher in the area of sex hormones, brain biology, & sexual behavior that I have heard of, and he has been around forever. User:Alteripse 19:36, 7 May 2005 (UTC) :Well, I actually had to do a google search for him - the name rang a bell, but not a loud one. To assess his current standing, you have to be aware that he was working in the GDR, not West Germany. Now, apparently, until the mid-1970s, his biological theories and proposed "cures" were well recieved in parts of West Germany, too, but back then biologistic theories and "cures" were all the rage, anyway. Since the mid-70s, though, LGB questions were considered far more from a social point of view, with those theories pretty much disappearing both from the public eye. (Trans* went a different path, staying until recently firmily in the hands of sexologists, and IS staying firmly in the hands of doctors.) :Now, actually, most of Western Europe has not taken anywhere as much interest in the "new" biological theories of the origin of sexual behaviour as the US has done; people regard the question as anything from mildly interesting to mildly amusing, nothing more. However, I did find some rather leftist LGB(TI) comments on him, apparently he got a medal of honor a few years ago, and they were mad about that - the left LGBTI most certainly does not see him as an ally. I have not found anything mainstream about him, but I would be very very very much surprised if anybody in the mainstream would consider anybody with his history and his views an ally - after all, that guy maintains that LGB(TI) has a simple reason, and could theoretically be cured in the womb. Actually, no biological theory is very much in favour, anybody proposing any biological theory would need to have very convincing evidence and a snow-white ethical standing to be even remotely considered as an ally. (Biologistical theories still have that faint - and in this case, not so faint - smell of the 3rd Reich about them in Europe, too.) And of course his theories do belong a) to a different time, and b) to a different society, so he just isn't much talked about at all among LGBTI circles. If he is talked about, though, it is hardly favourable. :As for T and I, well, I is known to have biological reasons, but everybody familiar with this knows it is a lot more complicated than that, and his theories on T don't exactly sound as if there was anything behind them, either. Certainly he is not discussed much there, either, although transgender people, especially transsexual people, are far more in favour of a biological explanation than LGB people. However, the focus there is on things like Gooren's (fe)male brain, not so much on how it became that way, but as the ultimate proof that one isn't "just a nutcase". With the move towards simply accepting it as it is instead of "curing" it, which was the previous focus on transgender people, even that becomes less important. So, all together, this guy is not very important to any current discourses, including, as far as I am aware of, most of the medical discourses regarding LGBTI people. :PS: And sorry, other answer is on the way. -- User:AlexR 12:56, 9 May 2005 (UTC) Thanks for the detailed answer. It is exactly what I was wondering. User:Alteripse 15:09, 9 May 2005 (UTC) == FAOC == Re your vote on styles. I understand and agree. But only casting one vote is effectively a vote ''against'' Alternative 1 because it means that less opposition is recorded against its nearest rival. Ireland uses an electoral system called ''Proportional Representation using a Single Transferable Vote''. It works on the same principle as the one being used (only less complicated! I never thought I would find a system more complicated than PR.STV!) What you do is give your bottom preference to the people you want to defeat, and spread your vote in a way that boosts the rivals of the alternative you do not want. So if for example, you find Alternative 3 the one you least like, give it your bottom vote so that opposition to it is recorded. And spread the other votes to ensure the weakest get votes ahead of it. If for example in Ireland I want to ensure candidate 'x' of Fianna Fáil is elected, and ensure candidate 'y' of Sinn Féin is defeated, and there are 15 candidates, I give my number 1 to 'x', my number '15' to 'y' and spread my other votes to ensure that all other candidates beat 'y'. Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil voters famously used to practice a 'first and only choice' vote by just voting for their own preferred candidate and then stopping. They eventually realised that they were wasting their vote because they weren't using it to block those they were most opposed to, or to build up the rivals to the candidate they were opposed to. To stop Alternative 3 winning, if that is what you want, give it your ''fifth choice'' and give your second, third and fourth choices to the weakest options. Just be careful though not to copy everyone else doing it. If everyone gives the same other alternatives the same order of votes they may win. So if option 4 gets a lot of 2s, give it a 4. Doing a full vote right down the line will have the effect of strengthening Alternative 1 vis-a-vis 3 or whatever. Just voting for 1 and stopping actually weakens it against its rivals if everyone ''else'' votes down the line, because while their opposition to different alternatives is recorded, by stopping at 1 your's isn't. That is why though very popular Alternative 1 is being beaten. Remember the winner won't be decided by who has more votes for, but which faces the least opposition. ''Slán'' Fear''ÉIREANN''\user_talk:Jtdirl 00:13, 8 May 2005 (UTC) == Resent newbie/vandalism == Hi, You might want to have a look at the recent edits to transwoman -- somebody has been making sort of opinionated changes in many articles. I'm not sure whether they are good or bad. User:Patrick0Moran 04:14, 11 May 2005 (UTC) ==Top Sekrit Cabalist Rollback Function== Hello Alex. It appears you sent me a message about this earlier, but due to some strange deficiency in my IRC software I only saw it when I disconnected. The helpful facility you are after is called godmode-light and is detailed [http://sam.zoy.org/wikipedia/ here]. I came across it because it was mentioned on the village pump some time ago. I don't think anyone there condemned its use, but it was said by some people that anyone using it should follow the rule for admin rollback which is to use it only to revert vandalism, and not in content disputes (it doesn't allow you to fill in an edit summary explaining the revert). To use it you just add
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== The life of a polymorph perverted trannfag == Just when Konrad Adenauer left this world, I arrived. On my birthday, Hair had its premiere, but nothing of ''that'' reached the small Eifel village in Germany, where I grew up. That was a place where ''decent'' people lived, not some long-haired Red Army Faction, who wanted to bomb all decent people out of this world! Which is why all long-haired guys belonged, for reasons of security and order, into working camps, anyway — and that was the liberal position. And that was the reason I asked myself rather early in my life whether I really belonged there. My whole bunch of relatives asked themselves the very same question, too. Especially since all attempts to make me into a ''proper'' girl seemed not too successful, either. They were right about that. They had no idea, just how right they were. Should have listened to me, I've always said so! In the same year when half a million people protested in Bonn against the brilliant idea of both NATO and the Soviet Union to station cruise missiles in Germany whose main targets were in Germany, I moved, together with my mother, to Cologne, and with that into a somewhat more liberal environment. (For those who don't know quite so much about cruise missiles supposed to drop on ''my'' head, that was the year of the Falkland war, too.) Anyway, living in Cologne, I met strange people with long hair - at school! I started to listen to strange music - Rolling Stones! I encountered strange political opinions and made a brief excursion into communism. The strangest thing however was my brilliant idea that a lot of my problems came from being not feminine enough. The phase that followed looked, in retrospect, a lot like Drag. But nobody can say I didn't try! While in the USSR Glasnost and Perestroika began, I got my own freedom, namely from school (and, Ms. Teacher: I never missed it - not for a second!), and I got my own flat, too. In the following years I was a student of philosophy, science of religion and English literature. I spent a lot of time, though, studying music by listening to a couple of very good local bands, and studying social sciences by observing and interacting with people at a local pub. At that point, I was still trying to suppress my constantly growing discomfort with myself and the rest of the world by attempting to become my own ideal of femaleness. A goal I reached about the same time Yugoslavia began to break up. Because when I reached it, I realised that I had been on the wrong road all along, and my life began to break up, too. As a consequence, my interest in general politics somewhat waned, while I stumbled headlong into (trans-)gender politics. Now mind you, nobody called it gender politics or transgender politics back then, at least not in Germany. At that time, you were either a proper transsexual, or you were nothing. I - and a growing number of other people, too - had a feeling that while it was a good thing to escape from one set of "proper behaviour" that just did not fit, simply dropping into another one, and one that was even more narrow into the bargain, was not a solution. That rather obvious realisation (obvious once you allow yourself to think about it, that is) lead me right into transgender politics. I even became a founding member of an organisation for transman and have worked for changes in the German "transsexual law". Who could have possibly predicted that when I was born? [http://www.alexhere.de My Homepage] ---- == Oh yes, the Wikipedia == User:Reene,_hereby_award_AlexR_the_Wiki_Wiffle_Bat_for_his_general_awesomeness_and_the_ability_to_stand_his_ground_despite_tedious_opposition.">Image:Wifflebat.png|right|frame|I, User:Reene, hereby award AlexR the Wiki Wiffle Bat for his general awesomeness and the ability to stand his ground despite tedious opposition. [[Image:20000 graveyard.jpg|thumb|User:Rama/Nemo of honour: for excellent and courageous work on Opus Dei.]] I used to be quite active in the German Wikipedia until I found the climate unfavourable to my health. While I used to stick to the articles listed on the List of transgender-related topics in the English one, by now I am a lot more active here. ==Other stuff== Find here the ongoing series of /Edits that are so stupid that they deserve to be preserved May I also recommend jEdit with the Wikipedia plug-in for editing Wikipedia? Java, so it should run on every computer, syntax highlighting for wiki markup (and lots of other stuff), shortcuts for formating, and lots more. No need of a browser at all, open and safe directly from jEdit. And of course it is free and GNU. * [http://www.jedit.org/ jEdit] * [http://www.djini.de/software/mwjed/index.html Wikipedia plug-in]
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Moved lots of stuff to archive: * 23.Oct.2004: /Archive 10 2004 (In fact, this time I moved everything ;-) ---- == Response? == Hi, Alex, I hope to be able to make progress on the cross-dressing article, and to do so I want to step around certain distractions that trouble both of us. Could you please respond on the cross-dressing discussion page to my last question to you? (The one above the line where the distracting material appears. ;-) ) Thanks. User:Patrick0Moran 16:17, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I wonder what distraction you are talking about. The only ''other'' thing that is being debated seems to be more important than ... errr ... that famous sack of rice in China? The colour of Bush's underwear? Uh, now I am being nasty ... but to some it seems certainly more important than correct and NPOV articles. Oh well ... :I did not manage to respond to you in the morning because I was a bit in a hurry to get to my father, and since I helped him repairing the roof today, I am too tired to get together a complete answer. But don't worry, it isn't forgotten, it might just become a longish answer. ;-) -- User:AlexR 19:43, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC) ==Insulting== I'm willing and eager to accept your truce on Heteronormativity and other articles. However, I would ask one thing - please try to assume good faith on the part of other people. I know Hyacinth, and I know he means well. He is not trying to be insulting. He saw a conflict and made a genuine and sincere effort to resolve it. The fact that you find his attempted resolution unacceptable really shouldn't be a cause for calling the effort insulting. I assure you, there was no malice behind it. User:Snowspinner 03:53, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC) ==Mediation== Hello Alex. Ambi has heard from AWilliamson, and I have contacted him to start mediation. Please could you email me and let me know the situation so far, and how mediation might be able to help. My address is sannse (a) tiscali.co.uk Please also read Wikipedia:Confidentiality during mediation and let me know if you are happy with this. Thanks -- User:Sannse User talk:Sannse 22:23, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC) (mediation committee) ==Autobiography (album)== Please stop your reverts on Autobiography (album). They are getting on my nerves. User:Everyking 05:56, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC) :Well, how about stoping your edits, which are appreciated by no one but yourself? They are getting on several people's nerves. -- User:AlexR 14:34, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Article Licensing == Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information: *User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered *Wikipedia:Multi-licensing *User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "
There's a reason for everything, AlexR. In this case, the reason was carelessness on my part. I clicked on the first Hormone replacement therapy link and saw that the article mentioned use of HRT "by transgendered or transsexual people", and so assumed that the second link lead to the same article. My apologies. -- User:Picapica 19:20, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC) :Happens to the best of us - only on deletions like this, from experience I am ready to assume the worst. My appologies, too. -- User:AlexR 08:05, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Thank you... == for your help on IRC the other night. If there's ever anything I can do to help you out, please let me know. User:Kc9cqj 10:48, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Youve got mail! == For letting me know how to upload multiple images I here by ward you the WikiThanks unit. == Gender identity-role article == I noticed your remark in your edit summary to minor changes to the G-I/R article. I think the reason the article is there is to serve as an acknowledgement that according to Money's analysis the two terms "gender identity" and "gender role" are pretty thoroughly intertwined. Probably anything that tends to anchor the understanding (and definitions) of these critical terms should be kept. There are so many people around who use "gender" as a sort of euphemism for "sex" and otherwise indiscriminantly fling these terms around that anything that encourages people to learn the history of the terms, the reasons they came into existence, etc., is a plus. User:Kim 金 05:07, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) == POV == Fine, but I think the article, either way, has serious POV issues. — User:Philwelch ''User_talk:Philwelch'' 02:53, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC) In response to your remark: :Would you kindly stop making those stupid and incorrect edits to transwoman? It is obvious that you have no clue about gender assignments, so stop putting BS into the article, or you might find yourself treated as a vandal. I'm not familiar with the theory, but you're presenting POV as fact and being bold as vandalism. :For example, one is not born in any sex One is ''definitely'' born with a set of sex chromosomes and genitalia. There is established POV that states that sex is a matter of genetics and anatomy. :there are debates whether transgender people are clearly one sex My edits have never made a factual statement either way about that issue. :and intersex people can get assigned another gender at any time, not only shortly after birth. Fair enough. :And, the most basic thing: You may have something hanging between your legs, but what gets into the papers is not put there by said thingy, but by people - namely, doctors, midwifes and/or parents. What gets into the papers, according to your POV, decides or "assigns" one's sex. I assert that in most cases, it is simply an empirical observation of a pre-existing biological condition that is recorded. But this is a matter of POV, not fact--as editors, we must often be careful not to confuse the two. — User:Philwelch ''User_talk:Philwelch'' 03:14, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Transsexual== Hi Alex, You just said, :"since gender variant behaviour is seen by proponents or reparative therapy as an extreme form of homosexuality (a view that long has disappeared from scientific discourses)." on the above page. It's most certainly a view which is rapidly losing favour but, as you know, it's one of the two views expounded by Bailey, Blanchard et. al. Now, I'm not a big fan of B&B (at all!!!) but stating what you did isn't totally NPOV. Unfortunately, scientific discourses are ''still'' propounding this stance - bogus as it may be. Comments? - User:PcassidyUser_talk:Pcassidy 09:01, 6 May 2005 (UTC) :One could include a "most" or even a "serious" or "widely accepted" there, if needed - one might also argue, though, that B&B are not exactly part of the ''scientific'' discourse - they don't really fit any definition of science I have ever heard ;-) -- User:AlexR 11:02, 6 May 2005 (UTC) ::True, true :-) I'd say in the interests of broad factuality, maybe change it to 'most' or 'almost all'. There ''are'' BB&L fans out there that would probably jump on the chance to scream "POV", whereas I feel the point you made is very valid to the article and needs to be stated. Note also that HBIGDA as a whole don't seem to have a lot of time for reparative therapy - User:PcassidyUser_talk:Pcassidy 12:00, 6 May 2005 (UTC) :: Oh, and it should read "a view that has long since disappeared" (grammar) - User:PcassidyUser_talk:Pcassidy 12:21, 6 May 2005 (UTC) ::: Notice the update - thanks, Alex! - User:PcassidyUser_talk:Pcassidy 16:56, 6 May 2005 (UTC) == :Category:Gay, lesbian or bisexual people == There's a discussion (here: Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 May 4) on changing the name of :Category:Gay, lesbian or bisexual people to :Category:Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender people. I know you've been active on a lot of the trans-related pages, and there's some concern over whether to use "transgender people" or "transgendered people" or some other variant. I'm sure you get sick of these sorts of issues, but if you're at all interested, I'd be grateful if you'd pop on by and give us some guidelines. -User:Sethmahoney 21:06, May 6, 2005 (UTC) Hello. I encourage you to visit Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 May 7#Gay, lesbian, and bisexual / LGBT occupational categories. (Wikipedia really needs a GLBT noticeboard for stuff like this.) User:Jonathunder 06:21, 2005 May 8 (UTC) :Inspired by Jonathunder's idea, I have created a Wikipedia:LGBT noticeboard. Please take a look. -- User:SamuelWantman 07:03, 8 May 2005 (UTC) == User:AlexR/temp == ...is currently poking into various main namespace categories. If this draft is no longer needed, should it be deleted? Either way, it should be removed from the categories it's currently in, to Wikipedia:Avoid self-references. -- User:Beland 03:43, 7 May 2005 (UTC) ==Günter Dörner== I assume you know who he is. What is his reputation in Germany these days? Among LGBT communities? I remember some articles from the gay community in the 70s or 80s lambasting his ideas and research. I assumed he was long-dead, but recently ran across a recent article [PMID 11781536]. Although he takes pains to disavow prejudice and intolerance, he seems to pretty clearly consider such variations as "transsexualism" a result of pathologic processes to a greater degree than anyone in North America has been willing to express in a scientific publication, attributing them to pernicious environmental influences such as endocrine disrupters like DDT or stress. On the other hand, to that same reference is appended his resolution to the WHO that "homosexuality not be regarded as a disease or a mental disorder." Since I gather his idea of a biological basis of LGBT conditions has found more favor in those communities than it used to, is he considered sympathetic or an ally despite his calls to "prevent" those? There is no hidden agenda in my question, just curiosity, and I assume this is a topic you are familiar with. He is the only German researcher in the area of sex hormones, brain biology, & sexual behavior that I have heard of, and he has been around forever. User:Alteripse 19:36, 7 May 2005 (UTC) :Well, I actually had to do a google search for him - the name rang a bell, but not a loud one. To assess his current standing, you have to be aware that he was working in the GDR, not West Germany. Now, apparently, until the mid-1970s, his biological theories and proposed "cures" were well recieved in parts of West Germany, too, but back then biologistic theories and "cures" were all the rage, anyway. Since the mid-70s, though, LGB questions were considered far more from a social point of view, with those theories pretty much disappearing both from the public eye. (Trans* went a different path, staying until recently firmily in the hands of sexologists, and IS staying firmly in the hands of doctors.) :Now, actually, most of Western Europe has not taken anywhere as much interest in the "new" biological theories of the origin of sexual behaviour as the US has done; people regard the question as anything from mildly interesting to mildly amusing, nothing more. However, I did find some rather leftist LGB(TI) comments on him, apparently he got a medal of honor a few years ago, and they were mad about that - the left LGBTI most certainly does not see him as an ally. I have not found anything mainstream about him, but I would be very very very much surprised if anybody in the mainstream would consider anybody with his history and his views an ally - after all, that guy maintains that LGB(TI) has a simple reason, and could theoretically be cured in the womb. Actually, no biological theory is very much in favour, anybody proposing any biological theory would need to have very convincing evidence and a snow-white ethical standing to be even remotely considered as an ally. (Biologistical theories still have that faint - and in this case, not so faint - smell of the 3rd Reich about them in Europe, too.) And of course his theories do belong a) to a different time, and b) to a different society, so he just isn't much talked about at all among LGBTI circles. If he is talked about, though, it is hardly favourable. :As for T and I, well, I is known to have biological reasons, but everybody familiar with this knows it is a lot more complicated than that, and his theories on T don't exactly sound as if there was anything behind them, either. Certainly he is not discussed much there, either, although transgender people, especially transsexual people, are far more in favour of a biological explanation than LGB people. However, the focus there is on things like Gooren's (fe)male brain, not so much on how it became that way, but as the ultimate proof that one isn't "just a nutcase". With the move towards simply accepting it as it is instead of "curing" it, which was the previous focus on transgender people, even that becomes less important. So, all together, this guy is not very important to any current discourses, including, as far as I am aware of, most of the medical discourses regarding LGBTI people. :PS: And sorry, other answer is on the way. -- User:AlexR 12:56, 9 May 2005 (UTC) Thanks for the detailed answer. It is exactly what I was wondering. User:Alteripse 15:09, 9 May 2005 (UTC) == FAOC == Re your vote on styles. I understand and agree. But only casting one vote is effectively a vote ''against'' Alternative 1 because it means that less opposition is recorded against its nearest rival. Ireland uses an electoral system called ''Proportional Representation using a Single Transferable Vote''. It works on the same principle as the one being used (only less complicated! I never thought I would find a system more complicated than PR.STV!) What you do is give your bottom preference to the people you want to defeat, and spread your vote in a way that boosts the rivals of the alternative you do not want. So if for example, you find Alternative 3 the one you least like, give it your bottom vote so that opposition to it is recorded. And spread the other votes to ensure the weakest get votes ahead of it. If for example in Ireland I want to ensure candidate 'x' of Fianna Fáil is elected, and ensure candidate 'y' of Sinn Féin is defeated, and there are 15 candidates, I give my number 1 to 'x', my number '15' to 'y' and spread my other votes to ensure that all other candidates beat 'y'. Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil voters famously used to practice a 'first and only choice' vote by just voting for their own preferred candidate and then stopping. They eventually realised that they were wasting their vote because they weren't using it to block those they were most opposed to, or to build up the rivals to the candidate they were opposed to. To stop Alternative 3 winning, if that is what you want, give it your ''fifth choice'' and give your second, third and fourth choices to the weakest options. Just be careful though not to copy everyone else doing it. If everyone gives the same other alternatives the same order of votes they may win. So if option 4 gets a lot of 2s, give it a 4. Doing a full vote right down the line will have the effect of strengthening Alternative 1 vis-a-vis 3 or whatever. Just voting for 1 and stopping actually weakens it against its rivals if everyone ''else'' votes down the line, because while their opposition to different alternatives is recorded, by stopping at 1 your's isn't. That is why though very popular Alternative 1 is being beaten. Remember the winner won't be decided by who has more votes for, but which faces the least opposition. ''Slán'' Fear''ÉIREANN''\user_talk:Jtdirl 00:13, 8 May 2005 (UTC) == Resent newbie/vandalism == Hi, You might want to have a look at the recent edits to transwoman -- somebody has been making sort of opinionated changes in many articles. I'm not sure whether they are good or bad. User:Patrick0Moran 04:14, 11 May 2005 (UTC) ==Top Sekrit Cabalist Rollback Function== Hello Alex. It appears you sent me a message about this earlier, but due to some strange deficiency in my IRC software I only saw it when I disconnected. The helpful facility you are after is called godmode-light and is detailed [http://sam.zoy.org/wikipedia/ here]. I came across it because it was mentioned on the village pump some time ago. I don't think anyone there condemned its use, but it was said by some people that anyone using it should follow the rule for admin rollback which is to use it only to revert vandalism, and not in content disputes (it doesn't allow you to fill in an edit summary explaining the revert). To use it you just add
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