Today, the French-speaking Wikipedia passed a decision to deadname trans people in their biographies.
Some will argue that this makes WP-FR transphobic, and there is certainly something to it: while Wikipedia is not a monolithic institution, and while I am critical of the phrase "Wikipedian community", it is a fact that WP-FR is effectively controlled by people hostile or indifferent to inclusion.
But this decision is utterly un-Wikipedian, and therefore lacks any legitimity, for 2 reasons:
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