Talk:Anne Lawrence

WP policies relevant to my revert on mainpage.
In my diff comment, I directed readers to the relevant policies, but I linked to the wrong ones. The policies explaining why the cited blog cannot be used as a source on the mainpage are: — James Cantor (talk) 18:32, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * WP:Verifiability, especially the section on Self-published sources
 * WP:Biographies of living people, especially the section on Avoid self-published sources, which reads "Never use self-published sources – including but not limited to books, zines, websites, blogs, and tweets – as sources of material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject".

Pronouns aren't clear
According to Anne's own published work, they identify as a man. In, "Men in Men's Bodies" they say that they find it "doubtful" that "any MtF transsexual can be described as women." The basis for the use of their pronouns seems to be that they are a transsexual but it contradicts their own view of their gender. Without a source explicitly stating their pronouns, I think it would be best to defer to Wikipedia's Manual of Style/Gender identity re: best practices, point 6: "use of the Singular they in cases where gender identity is in question".

24.141.118.159 (talk) 17:32, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * She does not identify as a man. That quote comes from here, page 1. Part of the quote was left off; what she says is, "...described as women in men's bodies". She is criticizing a particular view of what it is to be transgender. In that same book, she refers to post-transition trans women with feminine pronouns (see page 5 for an example). She refers to herself with the same pronouns on her website. There is no doubt that feminine pronouns are the ones preferred by her for herself and others like her. Crossroads -talk- 01:44, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

This BLP relies excessively on primary and self-published sources
According to WP:PSTS: Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published secondary sources, and to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources and primary sources. Secondary or tertiary sources are needed to establish the topic's notability and avoid novel interpretations of primary sources. All analyses and interpretive or synthetic claims about primary sources must be referenced to a secondary or tertiary source and must not be an original analysis of the primary-source material by Wikipedia editors. This article is currently relying far too much on sources that are self-published, or are simply primary sources (e.g., old research papers). This article should be revised and trimmed down to largely reflect the information available from independent reliable sources, especially secondary sources. Hist9600 (talk) 13:20, 29 May 2024 (UTC)