> On Jan 26, 2015, at 2:43 AM, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Tarc, I felt your "lipstick on a pig" comment about a transexual was
> not just disgusting, but was a key example of why we needed a WM-LGBT
> user group to both highlight and gradually improve a hostile culture
> on Wikimedia projects that appeared to allow blatantly anti-LGBT
> attitudes and language on its projects under the guise of "being a
> joke" or "teasing".

Fæ, please don't refer to someone as "a transsexual"; it's objectifying and 
demeaning. Imagine someone calling you "a gay" - doesn't that just sound 
*wrong*? Adjective, not noun.

-- Allie
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