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Anti-trans advocacy on Wikipedia: ARBCOM and Sexology

James Cantor, a sexologist, has been in the news lately for anti-trans advocacy across the United States - serving as an expert witness while promoting misinformation for the Alliance Defending Freedom.[1][2][3] Less well known is the fact User:James Cantor also edited Wikipedia between 2008 and 2021 to promote anti-trans pseudoscience, defend his colleagues, and attack their critics in violation of Wikipedia's policies on conflicts of interest. His editing was scrutinized by the Arbitration Committee in the Sexology case (2013) - but he received no significant sanctions and was allowed to continue editing for years, until found to be abusing sockpuppet accounts. Here, I demonstrate that the committee's failure to act caused years of damage to the Wikipedia's coverage of transgender topics and editing environment for transgender contributors.

Background information

Note: When used on their own, 'Cantor' refers to James Cantor/User:James Cantor and 'James' refers to Andrea James/User:Jokestress.

James Cantor was recently described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as part of an "old guard" of sexology researchers which advocated treating trans identity as mental illness with associated conversion therapy-style “cures”[1] - he worked at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) with Ray Blanchard, and Kenneth Zucker.[4][2] CAMH's gender identity clinic was led by Zucker and later shut down following allegations of conversion therapy[2][5] Cantor's professional focus was the research of paraphilias (an experience of recurring or intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, places, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals.) He was an avid proponent of Blanchard's transsexualism typology; proposed in the 1980s, it argues that all transgender women fall into one of two categories: "homosexual transsexuals" (straight transgender women, posited to be extremely feminine gay men who desire heterosexual men) and "autogynophilic transsexuals" (all lesbian, bisexual, and asexual transgender women, posited to have a "paraphilic"/fetishistic sexual desire to be a woman) - this is unsurprisingly generally considered stigmatizing, incorrect, or both by the transgender community.[2][6] In 2003, J. Michael Bailey (another part of the "old guard"[1]) published The Man Who Would Be Queen, a book promoting Blanchard's typology. There was a large backlash from the LGBT community and transgender healthcare researchers. Cantor positively reviewed it, describing it as a sympathetic portrayal of "autogynephilic transsexuals" that explored the roots of their development.[7]

Cantor joins Wikipedia

In 2008, Alice Dreger wrote an article in the Archives of Sexual Behavior (whose editorial board contained Zucker, Bailey, Blanchard, and Cantor[8]) that accused Andrea James (who also edited Wikipedia as User:Jokestress), Lynn Conway, and Deirdre McCloskey of attempting to ruin Bailey over the book and censor scientific inquiry.[9] Dreger's account received a dozen critiques from a range of disciplines within the same issue for 1) downplaying how offensive the book was to transgender people, 2) attributing the backlash against the book to three individuals, and 3) partisan promotion of Bailey.[10]

That same year, Cantor pseudonymously joined Wikipedia as User:MarionTheLibrarian, making over 1,000 contributions to articles and discussions relating to his colleagues at CAMH, his opponents, Blanchard's typology, conversion therapy (particularly accounts that Zucker practiced it).[11] He would later state in an interview he joined to edit the articles of his colleagues and correct what he considered "misinformation".[12] As Marion, a mediation case was opened due to his POV editing of the articles for James, McCloskey, and Conway through citations to Dreger's piece.[13] During this, the other editor discovered his identity and took him to the COI Noticeboard for attacking Conway and James, shortly after which he started going by User:James Cantor and agreed not to edit The Man Who Would Be Queen or details of the controversy over Blanchard's typology.

Transgender scholars began to take note of the behavior. In 2009, a paper was presented at the International Foundation for Gender Education Conference which stated Cantor apparently spends a great deal of time trolling on Wikipedia and seemed to the author to be obsessed with trying to spin every entry that concerns transgender people and especially theories of trans etiology to conform to Blanchardian and Zuckerian ideology.[14] Shortly after, Lynn Conway wrote a report published on their university profile site arguing the same and stating Cantor has left permanent tracks all over Wikipedia, tracks that reveal just how far Zucker's operatives will go to suppress any criticism of their leader's work.[15]

In 2009, Cantor wrote his first article: the Feminine essence concept of transsexuality. An editor tried to delete it arguing it was a strawman created by and cited to Cantor's colleagues - but it was kept as editors argued there was enough sourcing. Same year, he was chided for making legal threats against James at the Administrator’s noticeboard In 2010, a discussion was opened at the External links noticeboard by Cantor where it was shown that Cantor added external links to himself and colleagues; he was told please stop adding cites linked to yourself, that is the actual issue here. Cantor argued he was an expert editor The same year, he was blocked for COI editing of Charles Allen Moser, who was a vocal critic of Blanchard’s typology.[16][17] In 2012, James attempted to delete the article gynandromorphophilia, written by Cantor, as a POVFORK of attraction to transgender people (the term was invented by Blanchard and , but the discussion found no consensus. It was re-opened in 2013 on the same grounds but deferred due to ARBCOM case.

For context, we must summarize the state of the field at this point: in addition to numerous critiques by trans people, clinicians, and researchers described above, by 2013 there were multiple critiques of this theory.[18][6][19][20] In 2009, a study of trans people's perspectives on the typology concluded that a classification of the MTF population, based solely on sexual orientation, is fundamentally limited. An adequate understanding of this population will only be achieved if social dimensions of the transgender experience, as framed by age and ethnicity in particular, are fully considered.[21] In 2010, transfeminist scholar Julia Serano had pointed out If proponents of autogynephilia insist that every exception to the model is due to misreporting, then autogynephilia theory must be rejected on the grounds that it is unfalsifiable and therefore unscientific. If, on the other hand, we accept that these exceptions are legitimate, then it is clear that autogynephilia theory’s two-subtype taxonomy does not hold true[18] At this point in time, there was agreement even among academic sources that theory was, if not debunked, heavily criticized and particularly by the transgender community.

In these years leading up to the Sexology case, Cantor repeatedly used Wikipedia as a venue to attack his critics and promote his theories, his colleagues, and himself. This was picked up on by transgender scholars at the time, including those he attacked. His theories, arguably in vogue in the preceding decade, were heavily criticized by the medical and transgender communities. Cantor contended in each dispute that unlike the “activists” who disagreed with him, he was an “expert”. With all these continuing issues, it’s no wonder the Arbitration committee soon became involved.

The Arbitration Committee and ARBSEX

The precipitating moment for the Arbitration committee case was an a 2013 discussion at the Administrators Noticeboard proposing topic bans and sanctions for Cantor, James, and a number of involved parties.

As The Signpost reported at the time, the dispute between James and Cantor that started Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Sexology (2013) began on the hebephilia article but included articles on paraphilias and "transgenderism" - Cantor was accused of excessive self-citation and negatively editing James's article, James was accused of promoting WP:FRINGE theories.[22] The Arbitration Committee found Jokestress and James Cantor are involved in off-wiki advocacy or activities relating to human sexuality; the topic is a primary area that the two edit. The committee found James imported aspects of the controversy into the English Wikipedia to the detriment of the editing environment on sexuality-related articles. No findings of fact were proposed for Cantor.[22] This silence was juxtaposed with the committee stating it was a principle of the case that Guidelines on editors with a conflict of interest strongly discourage editors from contributing "in order to promote their own interests".

The Arbitration Committee enabled discretionary sanctions for all pages dealing with transgender issues and paraphilia classification (e.g., hebephilia). Shortly after, the Chelsea Manning Naming Dispute Arbitration Case clarified it applied to transgender people's pronouns and names. (a breakdown of the evolution of the sanction into it's modern form can be found here) James and Cantor were given a mutual interaction ban (barring interactions between the two editors or editing of their pages); though unlike Cantor, the arbitrators banned James from human sexuality (later expanded to include gender in 2019). During the evidence gathering phase of the case, multiple editors argued that Cantor had COI issues - particularly with regards to his editing of articles of his opponents, his incivility (writing off those who disagreed with him as "activists"), and his POV-pushing; meanwhile defenses of his behavior included Importantly, Dr. Cantor does not edit war. Cantor probably should not edit BLP articles of his opponents and he made POV edits to start with, but then [was] very reasonable and respectful of consensus when presented with non-adversarial arguments. [23][23]

The committee proposed indefinitely prohibiting Cantor from editing hebephilia, biographies of sexology researchers, and related advocates while allowing him to edit talk pages, which would have required 6 votes.[22] It failed as 3 supported the measure, 3 opposed, and 2 abstained - the latter 5 saying future misbehavior from him could be covered by the discretionary sanctions.[22][24] One arbitrator had withdrawn[22], having presciently asked during the decision workshop Why isn't Cantor being subjected to the same topic ban as Jokestress?.[24]

During the case an arbitrator had wisely noted the decision in no way implies a side is "right", hence the reason for the "limits of arbitration" principle. There are issues here with discussions over what constitutes reliable sources and fringe theories that are not addressed by the decision.[24] One of the official recurring principles of the committee was Wikipedia arbitration does not address scholarly, ideological, social, or other disputes that may exist outside Wikipedia, except to the extent that they may be affecting Wikipedia itself. Arbitration decisions should be read with these limitations in mind and should not be used, or misused, by any side in connection with any form of off-wiki controversy, dispute, allegation or proceeding. And thus, the committee kicked the can down the road - they weren't going to say whether his views were FRINGE. At least, right after the case, the 3rd attempt to delete Gynandromorphophilia was successful.

The aftermath

After the case, Cantor's behavior boldened: he continued editing until 2021 and made a lifetime total of approximately 8000 edits across multiple accounts - most if not all containing major conflicts of interest.[25][26][27][28] He created at least two new accounts[29] to continue his COI editing, particularly to skirt the IBAN with James, in 2013[27] and 2015.[28] As the admin who would block him summarized when he did, his behavior represented longtime evasion of scrutiny (given that all of the accounts involved have been active in the same topic area for several years) The subterfuge acknowledged, we can analyze his public activities.

Skipping forward to his public comments on the arbitration case, in 2015 he bragged in an interview that when he started writing on Wikipedia, I started hearing those very same sentences getting quoted almost verbatim by major media outlets. I can’t help but think that if we, meaning the topic experts who are around (and could be around) didn’t put that information in there, what would these media outlets be saying then?[12] He'd tell the Kinsey Institute in 2017 that Wikipedia supported my dissemination of science over the activists who disliked what the science said. Reddit, however, banned me from posting in the psychology group because a single moderator disliked that same science. [30] His use of Wikipedia to promote his views and use of the Sexology decision as a shield is evident. But, when we consider the well-documented gender bias on Wikipedia or the systemic pressures faced by transgender people affecting their educational opportunities [31][32] or the pathologization of transgender people by the medical community[33] - one can only read his statements as gleeful revelry in cultural hegemony and systemic bias playing in his favor.

In 2013, Cantor attempted to delete Margaret Nichols with no mention of the relevant COI and failed, being the sole proponent of deletion with 6 editors disagreeing - he bludgeoned almost all of them. For context, in one of the 2008 same-issue reviews of Dreger's piece, Nichols had sharply criticized Bailey, his book, Blanchard's typology, and CAMH, not to mention Cantor himself (of whom she said many would consider their pathology-paradigm perspectives unenlightened).[34] In 2016 he used a sock to try deleting it again, agreed with himself, and two real editors agreed and thus the article was deleted. In 2015 he unsuccessfully attempted to delete the biography of sexologist David Oliver Cauldwell, arguing he wasn't notable.

In 2015, he reported User:Sceptre, a transgender editor who'd participated in the sexology case, for referring to Zucker as a child-abuser for his conversion practices after the clinic closed and arguing Cantor should fuck the hell away from the Autogynephilia article (which Cantor was attempting to restore following a prior merge). Sceptre had cited an article published 2 days prior in that statement which said Zucker believes it is both ethical and possible to direct a young child’s gender identity to match their biological sex through practices including limiting patients’ cross-gender behaviour and Zucker indicated his therapy would prevent children from growing up to be transgender.[35] - Sceptre was blocked.[36] During that case, multiple editors noted that he not only continued to edit articles where COIs where apparent, but even edited those he'd specifically pledged not to after switching from Marion to his real name - nothing came of it.[36] Some rebutted that editing his field of expertise wasn't a COI. In 2019, he was taken to ANI for stating "most activists [critical of Blanchard] are autogynephilic mtfs" in an edit summary - it was found to be an acceptable way to refer to people.[37][38][39] Some called for a topic ban for his promotion of fringe theories, others opposed it calling it thought policing or political correctness, some of them acknowledging the term is a slur - Cantor repeatedly doubled down on his use of the term and referred to the Sexology case as evidence his editing was all above board: the ArbCom decision shows that all findings faulted [Jokestress's] behavior, not mine, and topic banned her, not me. How explicit would his insults need to have been to receive sanction: would all the people who oppose the theory I support are people who get off on being women have been enough? That year, he also removed his non-binding pledge to avoid a subset of COI articles from his userpage.[40]

At the same time, Cantor was active in the real world. In 2016, he argued on his blog that the majority of transgender children grow out of it based on outdated and flawed research.[41] In 2018 the Alliance Defending Freedom hired him to help ban transgender girls from girls' school sports teams.[42] In 2020, he was temporarily banned from the listserv of Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality for what the president described as a pattern of harassment against several other members – even after those other members had repeatedly asked him to stop, at which point he resigned.[43] That same year, he argued on his blog that conversion therapy has never been practiced on transgender people so shouldn't be made illegal in Canada.[44] His attempts soon thereafter to edit the CAMH page to downplay the conversion therapy allegations against them are therefore not shocking.[45]

Finally, in 2021, two of his sockpuppets, User:Starburst9 and User:Banglange, were discovered and he was blocked for violation of sockpuppeting policies and his IBAN with James.[29] The top edited articles for Starburst9? Those include Sexual addiction, James Cantor, and Andrea James. For Banglange? The top three are Kenneth Zucker, James Cantor, and Andrea James. In a fitting irony, in 2022 a judge ruled that Cantor lacked expertise in gender-affirming care and gave him "very little weight"[46] Humorous, but in Florida, he was hired by the state to defend a ban on public funding for gender-affirming healthcare[47] and in Texas to defend investigating parents of transgender children for child abuse,[41] Since 2021, the same year as his block, he testified in 25 cases seeking to restrict transgender rights in the U.S. after being asked to do so by the Alliance Defending Freedom.[2] He estimates he's doubled his income through this testimony and says he closed clinical practice to handle the case-load, often citing the work of his colleagues at CAMH.[2]

Take-aways from sexology

A WP:FRINGE sexologist known for his pathologizing views on transgender people edited Wikipedia's articles - on trans topics, his critics, and the researchers he worked with - for over a decade. Like organized crime boss Al Capone getting got on tax evasion rather than organizing crime - Cantor was not banned for years of COI editing, offensive comments, and civil POV pushing, but for doing so with sockpuppets. Even then, civil was in the eye of the beholder, as his work was long considered derogatory and pathologizing. What should we make of this?

Some I've spoken to have suggested it belies a shift in what is WP:FRINGE: his views, while deeply offensive, were in vogue in 2008, or even 2013 during the sexology case. But reliable sources were clear, even then, that the majority of the LGBT community found those views offensive. Perhaps in 2008, his views were slightly more notable, but he was editing until 2021, when his work had been considered FRINGE for a decade.

Others chalked it up to early Wikipedia's deference to experts and greater rein given to them in their topic areas. But that doesn't explain how he got away with the WP:COI - he didn't only write about his theories citing himself and his colleagues, he wrote about his colleagues, his critics, and crossed the line between personal and professional all to often. And it doesn't explain why his supposed expertise often trumped not only the experiences of trans people but the findings of other researchers.

I think the take-away is clear, through inaction the Arbitration Committee prioritized a small clique of sexologists and their thoughts on a minority demographic over the demographic itself, who overwhelmingly said their work was pathologizing and didn't represent the community accurately.[48] Their decision emboldened him further and was used as a trump card whenever his behavior was called into question. It does not matter if Wikipedia lagged behind the times in allowing their FRINGE nonsense, or kept up with the times which allowed their offensive nonsense, the point still stands such advocacy was allowed and went unsanctioned - systemic bias played a clear role. As Sceptre put it in WP:ARBSEX, a facet of the case was encyclopedic treatment of a maligned minority, especially when said maligning comes from otherwise reliable sources - regrettably the Committee never considered it.[49]

Wikipedia's editors are undoing his damage to our coverage of transgender topics to this day. Earlier this year I came across and successfully nominated Feminine essence concept of transsexuality for deletion on the grounds it was a clear POV fork where half the citations never discussed the concept and the other half were letters to the editor from Cantor, Blanchard, and Bailey. Hopefully, we won't repeat the same mistakes when dealing with such behavior in future, and the community's swifter response to such issues shows the times they are a-changin'. - YFNS

Notes and references

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