Women only… trans women are women, and transphobic or gender critical talk isn’t allowed. Anyone under the trans umbrella (eg non binary) is welcome
Are you just suggesting the edit made to the sidebar be made to this body text as well, i.e. that instead the body text says:
Women only… trans women are women, and transphobic or gender critical talk isn’t allowed. Any woman-identified person under the trans umbrella (e.g. non-binary, bigender, agender) is welcome.
Not all bigender, agender, or non-binary people identify as women, being listed as examples of trans people who might identify as women and are welcome is not necessary for their inclusion, and the language before is actually more inclusive by stating “anyone under the trans umbrella is welcome”. I’m not sure what problem is being solved here.
EDIT2: After thinking on it, I guess the idea is that by explicitly listing that non-binary, agender, and bigender people who identify as women can participate might it make some people feel more welcome.
I don’t think there is anything necessarily wrong with this, but the rule should be read as general, and we don’t want to give the impression that only those kinds of trans people that are listed as examples can participate.
A trans man like Leslie Feinberg would also be welcome despite being much closer to a binary trans man, for example.
The rules are more like guidelines than narrowly applied laws, and I just want to avoid implying any variant that isn’t listed is somehow not as welcome, the guideline is meant to work that way (and variants not listed are just as welcome as those that are).
OP should edit the post body to avoid making women who are men feel like men are unwelcome.
Sorry, I’m not entirely following your statement, who do you consider “women who are men”?
EDIT: I assume you’re talking about this post’s body text:
Are you just suggesting the edit made to the sidebar be made to this body text as well, i.e. that instead the body text says:
Not all bigender, agender, or non-binary people identify as women, being listed as examples of trans people who might identify as women and are welcome is not necessary for their inclusion, and the language before is actually more inclusive by stating “anyone under the trans umbrella is welcome”. I’m not sure what problem is being solved here.
EDIT2: After thinking on it, I guess the idea is that by explicitly listing that non-binary, agender, and bigender people who identify as women can participate might it make some people feel more welcome.
I don’t think there is anything necessarily wrong with this, but the rule should be read as general, and we don’t want to give the impression that only those kinds of trans people that are listed as examples can participate.
A trans man like Leslie Feinberg would also be welcome despite being much closer to a binary trans man, for example.
The rules are more like guidelines than narrowly applied laws, and I just want to avoid implying any variant that isn’t listed is somehow not as welcome, the guideline is meant to work that way (and variants not listed are just as welcome as those that are).