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  • Removed debates about Trans* and Drag and A place to talk about these matter to /Archive 1 on 1.May 2004, since those debates seem to be finished for the moment. Feel free to put them back here if you disagree. -- AlexR 10:25, 1 May 2004 (UTC)
  • Removed tons of stuff to /Archive 2. Mostly yet another go of "Transsexual versus Transgender" and a debate with Snowspinner about categories. -- AlexR 13:01, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] To Do List

Please put only short notices here about what needs to be done. If there is something that should be discussed, make an new heading for the debate below the other debates. Thanks!

  • Gender reassignment therapy articles; many of those are quite stubby.
  • The Legal aspects probably could be expanded, too. Which reminds me to put in Germany myself. Nevertheless, there must be a few people knowing about other countries, too. -- AlexR 13:01, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • Germany is done, what about other countries? -- AlexR 02:29, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Articles with ongoing debates

  • Cross-dresser The inclusion of Joan of Arc is hotly debated right. More input would not hurt. -- AlexR 02:29, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has been renamed to Cross-dressing. This one is now in mediation; but I think that it would not harm if somebody from here came in and had a look, too. AlexR 19:16, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Done

  • Somebody please have a look at Hijra. The discussion is getting somewhat surreal; it is partly dealing with transgender prostitution now. -- AlexR 17:19, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Heteronormativity Yes, that one again *sigh*. Snowspinner now claims that he could not find any references linking heteronormativity with transgender or intersex issues; those bits in the article therefore are, according to him, original research and should be removed. (He already tried to remove them months ago, I thought we had been trough with that. Oh well, obviously not.) Somebody please feed him with some references, I don't have easy access to current english articles. -- AlexR 02:29, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • List of transgendered people User:Jongarrettuk keeps removing information he put in himself, and which I think belongs there. The debate has quite expanded, now he is questioning the whole list, claiming that many people are not labeled correctly. Just why do these debates always come in double or tripples after months of peace and quiet??? -- AlexR 02:29, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Cisgender needs some attention, too - say guy as in the list. He keeps removing "even" from Also, cisgender or cissexual replaces many other terms used like biological man or born woman or genetical man or even real woman. claiming that it is POV, and can't be be NPOV, because he uses "real women", too. -- AlexR 11:40, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • That's not what I'm saying. I said it was unnecessary, or failing that POV. Mind you, looking at many other transgender articles, lots seem to be worded using technical terms that make them unreadable as far as a layman is concerned. Personally, I'm disappointed. I think it's a shame that these articles cannot be worded so they are readily accessible to a wider audience. But if arguing a transgender viewpoint using technical words that few people understand is more important to you than encouraging the reader with a passing interest to learn more about the subject, then so be it. I will seek to change the articles I myself find interesting so they use language anyone can understand, and leave you to write articles that are only ever going to be of any interest to those who take an active interest in transgender issues. jguk 22:11, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Movies

Dysprosia says, "(movies are) not directly related to trans* issues, so i don't think it should be listed".

What is Wikipedia policy regarding entries in "List of *-related topics" ? Does it say that an "indirectly" related topic is not a related topic ? Jay 11:28, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I think what she meant was that this particular movie is not directly related to trans* issues. I was quite irritated by the title, but after reading the article I would have no objections against it being listet. (But then, I am fairly liberal in these matters ;-) I do think, however, that the movies should get their own list, just as trans people are on a separate list, and that list is linked here. Then "Hot Chick" could get an entry in a "related" category, or one about "movies where a person changes gender/sex for other than trans*-reasons" or something; after all, all the movies dealing with cross-dressing are missing, too -- and there are quite a few of those out there.
This list here aims at giving people an overview over the related topics, and should, for reasons of usability, simply not have any long lists of things of the same kind itself. I have been thinking for a while now that even the various IS syndroms should be removed; while IS itself is certainly an important subject, quite a few of the related syndroms have few relations to trans*, if any. After all, this is a list of related topics, which is not the same thing as a list of every article that might be remotely related. Those articles should be reachable via this list, but not necessarily directly from. -- AlexR 12:39, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
As it stood before, I'd have agreed with Dysprosia. But I think the short movies section, as it stands now, fits with the rest of the article. There's really not that many - and unless we start including the countless crossdress-comedies, it's never going to be enough for an article on its own. Referencing those five here makes sense to me - they're all quite relevant. Ambivalenthysteria 13:09, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I meant that the movie The Hot Chick is not directly related to trans* related issues. None of the characters in the movie are transgendered. It may be useful to include the movie later, for movies that relate to trans* issues, but I thnk we should stick with movies that deal directly with trans* people for the moment. Dysprosia 03:18, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Ok thats fine, until we have a list of transgender-related movies similar to list of gay-related movies. Jay 22:35, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Indeed it is not, but somebody else included it, and we always have to remember that occasionally, other people give some input here, too ;-) Maybe it would be safer to start a list now, and have things neatly and in order, that is at least what I think. -- AlexR 12:04, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Ok, sure... Dysprosia 12:56, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] What article can we bring up to Featured quality?

I want to bring up something on this list to featured quality, so we can get it appearing as a featured article.

See Wikipedia:What is a featured article for more info. Question is - which?

As I see it we would need to choose an article that

  • relatively uncontroversial
  • has potential to be comprehensive
  • can be illustrated

Any suggestions? Morwen - Talk 20:35, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

In the German WP, de:Transgender made it (but needs some reworking by now, anyway). I am not quite sure whether the transgender article here would be so great - it talks basically a lot about what transgender is not, according to some people, and sub-groups, but not about transgender itself. Maybe Transvestism would be a decent choice? Since it also clearly explains what transvestitism is not, it would be just as good a start as most others. -- AlexR 20:33, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Please, no. Ambivalenthysteria 00:29, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hmmm... Please, no. is not exactly an answer to anything. Do you think the article is too bad to make it, or is this some good old-fashioned bashing of "lesser" trans-people? Now mind you, I don't care if the article does not make it, but I cannot agree with anything like "I don't want these people to get any attention." Especially since the article does make it very clear that there is quite some difference between say transvesitism and transsexualism. If you want the difference between the two to be noticed, it is quite necessary to explain both, and since this is the Wikipeda, both has to be NPOV. So could you maybe elaborate that "Please, no." somewhat? It will make talking a lot easier. Thanks a lot. -- AlexR 02:22, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Why not Gender identity, Genderqueer, Gender role (which needs attention anyway, IIRC), or, even though this would take work, Transgender? IMHO, they would be better candidates. Ambivalenthysteria 04:35, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I vote for gender identity. JulieADriver 17:31, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Relatively uncontroversial.. is going to be hard to do. No one seems to agree on what exactly all the different terms mean.
Can be illustrated.. Uhm, are you suggesting pictures of T* people?
-- Kimiko 07:15, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Non-human issues

While transsexuality may not occur "naturally" in the animal kingdom (or who knows, maybe it does?), simple sex-change operations have been used by veterinarians to help cats with urinary tract problems. Is this something that should be noted in the article?

I have never heard of this, But transsexuality does occur "naturally" in the animal kingdom (see [CNN article] about species that change sex and the rule of thumb about when the change occures). Also, human polutants have caused secondary sexual charactoristics changes in animals (See [National Geographic Article]).
Though animal species change sexes, It is apparently for the purpose of reproduction. This is oposed to human transgenser which is with respect to social roles of each gender.
69.171.150.47 01:34, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

"Though animal species change sexes, It is apparently for the purpose of reproduction. This is oposed to human transgenser which is with respect to social roles of each gender." - User:69.171.150.47|69.171.150.47

This shows a misunderstanding of the transsexual experience. We do not change our sex or chose to live as our correct sex or gender solely because of "gender roles". I wish it was that simple! The issue is far deeper and complex. Also, it is arrogant of us to assume we understand animal consciousness; that we would know whether or not there were transgender issues in other species. Athbhreith (talk) 01:26, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Millions of animals species have yet to be discovered let alone the purposes, intent and implications for all their behaviors including many transgender and hermaphroditic behaviors studied or understood. It's premature to implicitly infer conclusions accept to qualify as still being researched or not yet fully understood. Benjiboi 00:27, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question about "Transsexual Film Stars" link

Should we change the title of this link? because this is rather misleading "Transsexual Film Stars" Redirects to "List of transsexual porn stars". There most be more than just porn star TS film stars.--Sweety Rose 01:53, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FYI: Will the German list be deleted?
-- ParaDox 13:03, 8 October 2006 (UTC) – Update 01:35, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
The delete-result of the German “articles for deletion“ discussion was, that supposedly no topic-lists whatsoever are to remain in the article-namespace. The List can now be found in my user-namespace: de:Benutzer:ParaDox/Liste der Transgender-Themen. -- ParaDox 01:35, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
The List became a template on 5 Nov 2006: »de:Vorlage:Transgender-Themen«. -- ParaDox 16:41, 12 November 2006 (UTC)