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I noticed that the summary of the music video was a bit thin on detail, as the video actually has a narrative arc that wasn't really covered. I re-viewed the video and briefly wrote up the three scenes presented in it. The existing summary had been in place for at least several years, and at some point was thoughtfully updated to reflect Geiger's gender. However, within the scope of the music video as a work of fiction, I don't really know that we can project the performer's gender onto a character portrayed in the past with a gender expression that differs from the performer's. For this reason, I have chosen to write the summary in a way that does not ascribe a gender to Geiger's character. I describe the two main characters as "a musician" and "a woman" portrayed by Geiger and Cavallari, respectively, and thereafter I refer to them as "Geiger" and "Cavallari," because it was very unwieldy to keep writing the two-word descriptors. And I simply structured the sentences so that I never had to refer to Geiger with a singular pronoun. I would suggest that gendered language be used to describe Geiger's character in this video only if Geiger has gone on record about it after announcing her transition, or if someone can point me to a Wikipedia guideline that covers this really weird, very specific situation (i.e., of an implied character who may or may not be the performer herself, in a format containing no speech or writing). --DavidK93 (talk) 09:03, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
