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Wikipedia has been... tonedeaf about LGBT issues in the past - Arguments for keeping Chelsea Manning on her deadname; and, further back, problematic deletion of user categories and infoboxes related to LGBT issues in 2007. It's doing better, but one can state the most appalling homophobic/transphobic comments in a deletion argument and never get the slightest bit of backlash - see Talk:Chelsea_Manning/Archive_16#Gender, so I'm not sure how much it's there. Should there be blocks for such things? I don't know, but it does strike me that, as it is, there's basically no consequences. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.2% of all FPs} 22:48, 28 June 2020 (UTC)