The principal author of the page is Silver seren (
profile;
archive), aka Barnstar, a Wikipedist since 2006 who was given trophies this year for creating at least one biography of a woman each week from January through June (
awards;
archive). Perhaps Silver then began pursuing a trophy for a troon bio each week.
In any event, Silver was annoyed by Lemmaille removing "she" from Joe's bio (
convo;
archive).
These just seem like leading, trolling questions. Do you really not see how claiming that a trans woman "is not female" is a bigoted anti-trans statement, Lemmaille? If you were unaware, as shown by MOS:GENDERID that I already linked, the Wikipedia community supports LGBT subjects and agrees that trans women are women and trans men are men and should be represented as such in biographical articles and other references. SilverserenC 16:33, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
Oddly, the bio refers to Joe's 2013 dissertation and names his advisor, but does not state he received his PhD from Penn. Joe, in fact, omits that fact on the bios he controls. But here's the Penn page for him (
link,
archive) showing that in 2012 he taught a course, Victorian Feelings (
description,
archive):
... Because we will be investigating Victorian feelings as themselves literary creations brought into being by new theories of perception and consciousness, we will contextualize Victorian literary writing alongside other, less obviously literary kinds of writing, such as sentimental tracts on poverty, philosophical treatises on aesthetic sensibility, and scientific writings on sexual feelings. ...
