congress-edits, a dedicated Twitter feed that posts when an IP address associated with Congressional office buildings edits Wikipedia, uncovered a really egregious case today. From the looks of it, someone in a US House building made the following edit to the page for Orange is the New Black, screencapped by Polygon’s Arthur Gies:
Someone on Capitol Hill made transphobic edits to Laverne Cox’s Wikipedia page
Dylan Matthews was a senior correspondent and head writer for Vox’s Future Perfect section. He is particularly interested in global health and pandemic prevention, anti-poverty efforts, economic policy and theory, and conflicts about the right way to do philanthropy.
The edit removed a reference to cast member Laverne Cox as “a real transgender woman” and referred to her instead as “a real man pretending to be a woman,” linking in the process to a ridiculously transphobic and scientifically ignorant article in National Review about Cox. For the record: Cox is a woman, and trans people face horrific amounts of persecution and physical violence.
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