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Recent edit to Gender

Hello, and thank you for your recent contribution. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, but unfortunately I had to undo your edit because I believe the article was better before you made that change. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Thank you! ~ Boomur 23:00, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

You made an edit, without addressing the points raised in the talk section, and did so because "because I believe the article was better before you made that change"? That's inappropriate. The two sentences blatantly contradict each other. I'm sorry, but if you prefer that contradiction, well, too bad. "Gender identity is the gender a person self-identifies as." and "Categorizing males and females into social roles creates a problem, because individuals feel they have to be at one end of a linear spectrum and must identify themselves as man or woman, rather than being allowed to choose a section in between. " I'm changing it back because the choice is actually an important aspect as the paragraph goes on to note. Was this some sort of advocacy?Maxxx12345 (talk) 23:41, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Boomur was right to revert you, and now I've reverted you for the reason noted in that edit summary. For the vast majority of people, gender identity is not a choice; various research supports that. The topics of gender binary and genderqueer do not stop the fact that people usually identify with a gender by age three of four; it is not a conscious choice at that age, but rather what that person feels internally is their gender. For that sentence, I will apply sources used in the Gender identity article, and those sources don't use the word choice for what gender identity is. Perhaps it is your edit, not Boomur's, that speaks of advocacy. And if you start WP:Edit warring over this matter, it will do you no favors. And do beware that I usually instantly know when an editor is not new to editing Misplaced Pages. You don't come across to me as new to editing Misplaced Pages. If you want to discuss this gender identity matter further, then take it to Talk:Gender. Do not bring this matter to my talk page. Flyer22 (talk) 02:26, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Actually, it was Trankuility who reverted you; see here. So I struck part of my post above. Flyer22 (talk) 02:33, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Also, instead of using the sources from the Gender identity article for when gender identity is usually formed and it usually being very difficult to change after that point, I will add other WP:Reliable sources, and then update the Gender identity article with those sources. Flyer22 (talk) 02:40, 8 January 2015 (UTC)