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> But I don't think any other angle would make sense, people are the gender they say they are seems to be a very simple policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maria_Penttil%C3%A4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Finnish_female_serial...

Does describing this man as a "Finnish female serial killer" make sense? He is male. This is just factually incorrect.

Any attempts to change this categorisation were reverted, and all discussions about it were removed from the Talk page.

Why should I take your word, or anyone else's word, over the person themselves.

For example, go try to change Laverne Cox's Wikipedia to male you will have the same issue.

Why limit it to trans people, go change J.K Rowling to Male because I think she is male, if I get enough Wikipedia editors on board we should be able to do that right?

Also in all of these cases the gender of the person is one of the least interesting and important things about them to me as someone who doesn't know them, so why would I care to tell them what gender they are. Why would anyone else?

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