This is a collection of information on Wikipedia's gender identity guidelines. It includes a list of community discussions on this topic.
Policies, guidelines, and essays
- MOS:GENDERID: the Manual of Style's guideline on gender identity.
- MOS:MULTIPLENAMES: the Manual of Style's guideline on changed names.
- WP:GENDERID: a supplementary essay on gender identity.
- WP:TRANSNAME: a Wikiproject LGBT studies essay on how to write about transgender and non-binary people.
Discussions
A central list of community discussions on gender identity from throughout Wikipedia. For anyone interested in discussing or changing our gender identity guidelines, it's helpful to become familiar with prior discussions on the topic.
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Transgender pronoun / identity, April 2007
- Transgender pronoun issue, September 2007
- Gender, August 2008
- Gender of gender-ambiguous persons, February 2009
- Gender pronouns, June 2009
- Renée Richards, and Gender Identity, August 2011
- Singular They use because the subject prefers to use gender neutral pronouns, December 2011
- Pronoun pref, August 2015
- Allow inclusion of former names in lead section of biographies covering transgender and non-binary people, August 2016
- Gender changes and deadnaming, March 2016
- Retroactive use of transgender pronouns in indirect quotations?, November 2016
- Naming transgender people in other articles than their main biographical article, May 2017
- MOS:GENDERID, April 2018
- Deadnaming trans people, July 2018
- MOS:GENDERID and death, March 2019
- MOS:GENDERID Suggested change, March 2019
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography
- Trans people and pronouns, June 2004
- Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 121#MOS:IDENTITY clarification close, September 2015
- Outing and Wikipedia, September 2015
- Preparing two proposals that would change transgender policy, October 2015
- RfC: Allow inclusion of former names in lead section of biographies covering transgender and non-binary people, August 2016
- Applications of the transgender/non-binary birth name guidelines, March 2018
- Wikipedia:Village pump
- Gender Pronouns In Articles?, August 2003
- HTML comment for trans women, June 2010
- Fundamental problems with MOS:IDENTITY, May 2012
- New template for trans women, June 2012
- Proposal to modify MOS:IDENTITY, August 2012
- MOS:IDENTITY clarification, June 2015
- Problem analogous to the above discussion, June 2015
- Clarifying/updating WP:BIRTHNAME with respect to MOS:IDENTITY, July 2015
- Parallel discussion on transgender authors in citations, October 2015
- Clarifying MOS:IDENTITY in articles in which transgender individuals are mentioned in passing, October 2015
- Guidelines regarding birth names of trans individuals, June 2018
- WP:GENDERID advice requested, August 2018
- Gender information, January 2019
- Talk:Caitlyn Jenner
- Birth name in parenthetical, June 2015
- Cisgender is mainstream and germane, September 2015
- Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 121#MOS:IDENTITY clarification close, September 2015
- Talk:Chelsea Manning
- Talk:Chelsea Manning/Archive 1#Manning's sexuality/gender identity, June 2010
- Talk:Chelsea Manning/Archive 2#It is relevant that Manning is transgender, September 2010
- Chelsea Manning move request 1, August 2013
- Chelsea Manning move request 2, October 2013
- (please collect)
- Talk:Laverne Cox
- Talk:Laverne Cox/Archive 1#Birth Name, October 2014
- Talk:Laverne Cox#No birth name, April 2017
- (more may be relevant)
- Talk:Rose McGowan#Pronouns, February 2019
- Talk:The Wachowskis
- Crediting, January 2019
- "The Wachowskis" vs "The Wachowski Brothers", January 2016
- Presentation in Lead, May 2016
- (more may be relevant)
- Talk:Brandon Teena
- (please collect)