Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20190324211646/@comment-1350697-20190328163008

This specific matter continues to not be up for debate in this thread. This is new and current policy that is unlikely to change again this rapidly, and, as SOTO put it: "There is no truth to our deadnames, btw. They reflect a gender that was never ours." A deadname is a lie, and thus not a fact that needs to be in an accurate encyclopedic reference work.

As a non-binary and trans person, my gender identity -- which I'm making the assumption is covered by your reference to "identity politics" -- is not a thing I am able to meaningfully separate from the rest of myself. Not from my politics, not from other parts of my identity, not from my body or my soul.

To request that "identity politics," quote, "not play a role here," is essentially to demand that I, as a whole, and other queer folks, keep our noses out of things.

Do you understand that that is a ridiculous demand to make in a thread where the admins of this website very specifically request input from people who are part of minority communities to help them make this a safe(r) place?