Talk:2020s anti-transgender movement in the United Kingdom

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NPOV[edit]

This article has been created without any reference to an 1:1 article on the English Wikipedia and without the claim(s) on the lead section being reliably sourced. I apply NPOV when I am unhappy about senarios like this, especially if the subject may be controversial. To be clear Wikiquote welcome's reliable and notable and quotable quotes about all matters LGBT & LGBT+ and movements both for and against provided QLP hasn't been violated. My immediate concern here is the lead section is reliably sourced. Thankyou -- DeirgeDel tac 19:39, 7 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

@CarmenEsparzaAmoux:: Thankyou for adding sources to the lead section at Special:Diff/3313062. I remain of concern that you may have used W:WP:SYNTH and may have violated W:Wikipedia:No original research. I'd really prefer to be dealing with a theme that had a one-to-one matching article on the English Wikipedia or that there was a w:Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard on Wikiquote that could check this out. As such I'm going to request the NPOV remains in place until this is reviewed. I was just on a coffee break doing this and hope to return to this later. Thankyou for submitting the article. -- DeirgeDel tac 20:01, 7 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
@CarmenEsparzaAmoux:: I've announced my concerns at Wikiquote:Village pump#Transgender article lead section possible issue. Thankyou. DeirgeDel tac 20:58, 7 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
For my perspective, I think this is a reasonably-sourced and neutral claim and I think that it is reasonable to say that this is an existing phenomenon. —Justin (koavf)TCM 21:10, 7 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Koavf:: OK: so I identify as British, male and old enough to have used punch cards to input and run programs. Respect your views Justin but I remain concerned and the TERFs term immediately seems to be controversial. I have no real concern with the quotes in the article but I do remain concerned over the lead statement. I question if it can be read to disparage perhaps a significant majority of British women as TERFs. If I understand it right transgender carries a spectrum of cases and generally the real concern is a small proportion may be identifying as transgender to exploit others, possibly particularly vulnerable women. I'm not in the debate or having more than a cursory awareness of it. The use of conservative and political may also identify the Conservative Party (UK) which may be intended or may mislead. I also observe all the citations used for the references appear to be from American sources. This really needs a debate on the English Wikipedia where there is an W:en:NPOV noticeboard and resources to debate this. The article creator has created a sitelinked Wikidata item so at least I don't have to concern myself about that. If no-one else comes here to share my concerns in say 12 hours feel free to remove the {{NPOV}} tag; though if anyone removes it sooner with no objections to the lead section then I'm not going to dispute that. -- DeirgeDel tac 22:43, 7 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
I've removed the NPOV as I see no consensus for it remaining in place, certainly at the moment. I remain with personal concerns as stated previously; perhaps moreso as is seems TERF can be interpreted broadly construed, ambiguously, and with derogatory intent which makes a claim reliant upon it somewhat problematic. The use of a citebomb of American sources for a UK article does not strike me as a balanced approached, although it is certainly necessary to go beyond UK sources to get a balanced view of UK topics. I have suggested it for a topic at London Wikimedia Meetup Number 193 which I am most likely not going to be attending personally. -- DeirgeDel tac 10:17, 8 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Merge any notable/quotable quotes to Transgender or Transphobia[edit]

There is no Wikipedia article on this topic. There are only two actual quotable quotes in here. We should be wary of "theme" articles where the theme is to create a "wall of shame" of one-sided editorializing where search engines can easily find it. HouseOfChange (talk) 02:09, 21 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Quite so, I support a merger. A formal "anti-transgender movement" doesn't really exist in the UK, despite what the deleted one-sided reliable sources tried to suggest. Debates in the British media concern conflicting rights involving potential or actual legislation, but there is no formal organisation identifying as "anti-transgender". The article title is a misnomer and a merger to "transgender" is to be preferred. Incidentally, those writers and journalists opposed to gender self-id reject the transphobic tag, since the recognised medical condition gender dysphoria is not something they reject. An article [title using the word] transphobia would itself be "one-sided editorializing". Philip Cross (talk) 12:32, 18 February 2024 (UTC) [previously "An article titled", Edit: Philip Cross (talk) 07:10, 19 February 2024 (UTC)]Reply
We already have an article Transphobia, also one for Gender-critical feminism, and they are both already as big a mess as you might expect, walls of shame for unquotable POV-pushing "quotes." No reason for the UK to be singled out. HouseOfChange (talk) 01:09, 19 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
LGBT rights opposition might be another merge target. I agree having this as a standalone page is dubious without a corresponding Wikipedia article to substantiate that it is in fact a notable topic. Ficaia (talk) 14:23, 20 February 2024 (UTC)Reply