In the light of the posts by Mina Theofilatou, could the list admins take action to either
ban the use of this list by Mina or moderate all future posts in line with the UCoC and
TCoC?
The facts are that in these posts:
24 June:
Mina presented as a "valid concern" for Wikimania that there have been incidents
of trans women harassing women at events. This promotes that myth that trans women are
more dangerous than anyone else.
29 June:
Mina promoted the myth that there is a "era of self-identification", where trans
women might "exits the bathroom stall with his penis in his hand" which spreads
fear of trans women and attempts to normalize the idea that trans women are exposing
penises - and it's normal to call trans women men, so it's normal to misgender
trans women if you feel like it.
Mina attacked trans men using myths about fear of their menstruating. Mina derided the
idea of respecting trans people by presenting her clearly transphobic views as
self-evident "common decency", therefore making everyone genuinely respectful of
LGBTQIA inclusion outside of common decency.
Hopefully after these long confessional emails from Mina, no Wikimedia funded events will
be hosting Mina or her unnamed friend who is irrationally frightened of trans women. This
would be perfectly in
line with Wikimedia event and Wikimania safe space policies. I recommend we also remove
this email list platform as a way for Mina to permanently publish and promote transphobic
myths.
As a reminder, persistently avoiding calling trans women "trans women" or trans
men "trans men" by using peculiar terms like AMAB, AFAB, MTF, born male,
"males who identify as women", is itself an expression of transphobia. It is a
sure sign that someone has spent far too long on anti-LGBTQ forums.
Reference
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org…