This is a collection of information on Wikipedia's gender identity guidelines. It includes a list of community discussions on this topic.
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.
- Trans people and pronouns, Manual of Style/Biography, June 2004
- Transgender pronoun / identity, Manual of Style, April 2007
- Pronouns, Chevalier d'Éon, August 2007
- Transgender pronoun issue, Manual of Style, September 2007
- Gender, Manual of Style, August 2008
- Gender of gender-ambiguous persons, Manual of Style, February 2009
- Gender pronouns, Manual of Style, June 2009
- HTML comment for trans women, Village pump, June 2010
- Manning's sexuality/gender identity, Chelsea Manning, June 2010
- It is relevant that Manning is transgender, Chelsea Manning, September 2010
- Renée Richards, and Gender Identity, Manual of Style, August 2011
- Singular They use because the subject prefers to use gender neutral pronouns, Manual of Style, December 2011
- Fundamental problems with MOS:IDENTITY, Village pump, May 2012
- New template for trans women, Village pump, June 2012
- Proposal to modify MOS:IDENTITY, Village pump, August 2012
- Chelsea Manning move request 1, Chelsea Manning, August 2013
- Chelsea Manning move request 2, Chelsea Manning, October 2013
- Should the historic figure of the Chevalier d'Éon be referred to as a man or a woman?, Chevalier d'Éon, September 2014
- Birth Name, Laverne Cox, October 2014
- Problem analogous to the above discussion, Village pump, June 2015
- MOS:IDENTITY clarification, Village pump, June 2015
- Birth name in parenthetical, Caitlyn Jenner, June 2015
- Clarifying/updating WP:BIRTHNAME with respect to MOS:IDENTITY, Village pump, July 2015
- Pronoun pref, Manual of Style, August 2015
- MOS:IDENTITY clarification close, Manual of Style, September 2015
- Outing and Wikipedia, Manual of Style/Biography, September 2015
- Cisgender is mainstream and germane, Caitlyn Jenner, September 2015
- MOS:IDENTITY clarification close, Caitlyn Jenner, September 2015
- Preparing two proposals that would change transgender policy, Manual of Style/Biography, October 2015
- Parallel discussion on transgender authors in citations, Village pump, October 2015
- Clarifying MOS:IDENTITY in articles in which transgender individuals are mentioned in passing, Village pump, October 2015
- "The Wachowskis" vs "The Wachowski Brothers", The Matrix, January 2016
- Allow inclusion of former names in lead section of biographies covering transgender and non-binary people, Manual of Style/Biography, August 2016
- Gender changes and deadnaming, Manual of Style, March 2016
- RfC: How should the directors of this film be presented in the lead?, The Matrix, May 2016
- RfC: Allow inclusion of former names in lead section of biographies covering transgender and non-binary people, Manual of Style/Biography, August 2016
- Retroactive use of transgender pronouns in indirect quotations?, Manual of Style, November 2016
- No birth name, Laverne Cox, April 2017
- Naming transgender people in other articles than their main biographical article, Manual of Style, May 2017
- RfC regarding MOS:GENDERID for genderqueer people, Requests for comment, May 2017
- Applications of the transgender/non-binary birth name guidelines, Manual of Style/Biography, March 2018
- MOS:GENDERID, Manual of Style, April 2018
- Guidelines regarding birth names of trans individuals, Village pump, June 2018
- Deadnaming trans people, Manual of Style, July 2018
- WP:GENDERID advice requested, Village pump, August 2018
- Pronouns, Rose McGowan, February 2019
- MOS:GENDERID and death, Manual of Style, March 2019
- MOS:GENDERID Suggested change, Manual of Style, March 2019
- Gender information, Village pump, January 2019
- Crediting the Wachowskis, The Matrix (franchise), January 2019
- The Signpost: Humour: Pesky Pronouns, Wikipedia Signpost, February 2019
- The Signpost: Humor deletion discussion, Miscellany for deletion, February 2019
See also
- Transgender
- Gender identity
- Gender binary
- Feminist views on transgender topics
- Third-person pronoun#Transgender pronouns
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Identity (failed proposal)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT Studies
- WP:Gender neutral language