Birdwatch Note Rating
2024-05-07 16:31:13 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 98F2B4A2B4D99BC149C535CE6620828BDB230A007D4BE678A8B7DD17FDF24F28
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Imposing modern concept “gender identity” onto people in the past is, as form of presentism, bad practice & ahistoric: https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/may-2002/against-presentism Joan of Arc (1412-1431 CE) was known as “La Pucelle” (The Maid) & wasn’t trans: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Joan-of-Arc UK census data cited = flawed: https://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/flawed-census-question-leads-to-inaccurate-data-on-gender-identity https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/08/census-records-trans-population-in-england-and-wales-but-accuracy-is-doubted Stonewall have rewritten Stonewall: https://reason.com/2020/06/30/marsha-p-johnson-didnt-start-stonewall-pride-might-not-have-been-trans/ https://gaymalejournal.org/the-truth-about-stonewall-the-first-pride-march/
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