I want to complain about something.
It’s kind of sad that Wikipedia doesn’t include transage identities when people have done cool stuff.
I was trying to learn more about Randy Wicker and Chris Bartlett. Two people that are transage as far as I know. Randy Wicker was one of the first if not the first people to identify as transage (in 2008), and Chris Bartlett called himself YtO transage on Twitter in 2010, making him potentially one of the first YtO transage people. Also, both of these people are relatively famous outside of being transage, enough to have Wikipedia articles.
Neither of their Wikipedia articles have any mention of them being transage. Both of their articles talk about them as LGBTQ+ activists. Chris Bartlett’s article talks about his work on HIV/AIDS advocacy and advocacy around other health issues affecting gay and mspec men. Randy Wicker’s talks about him as an activist for legalizing human cloning and for the rights of human clones. Neither page mentions them as transage anywhere.
It might be that being transage is a small part of their identity and there’s a lot to talk about with them. But I can’t shake the feeling that if all the stuff they did was actually bad things instead of them being cool people, their transage identification would be plastered everywhere.
I know this is an issue with a lot of minorities. In particular, there’s the issue of how Wikipedia will bend over backwards to call Jewish people “born to Jewish parents” or “raised in a Jewish family” rather than “Jewish”. But still. It’s sad that the fact that they’re transage is nowhere.
Both of their transage identification seemed sincere. As far as I know neither have taken it back. With Randy Wicker, his Blogspot profile still lists him as transage. So I wish it was on Wikipedia. Just so we felt less alone. Knew we kept some really cool company.
