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I think your summary on TMWMBQ is about as balanced as I have seen, so I feel I must be misunderstanding what you are saying on the parts on which we disagree. I think we are disagreeing over more than one piece, so let me try to take them apart.
First is whether the two-types-of-transsexualism/autogynephilia theory has been discredited. Whether any theory is discredited or not is an opinion. There are still people on both sides of the issue. Perhaps we should just call it controversial?
Second is Baily's intent: Was he trying to >describe< autogynephilia (etc.) or do science (i.e., test an hypothesis)? In the book, he says he wants to describe it...at least, if he had an hypothesis he was trying to prove, no one (not even he) has said what it was.
Thoughout the book, although he did not provide the references to Blanchard's journal articles, he describe the content of Blanchard's articles and why Bailey was convinced by them.—Preceding unsigned comment added by MarionTheLibrarian (talk • contribs) 01:59, 22 May 2008
List of transgender people
Hi Darlie. Sorry if you're confused about what's going on here. I'll try to explain what's going on step by step so that you know how things should be done so that you follow wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
I'd suggest that you read wikipedia's policy on conflicts of interest in editing. Adding yourself to a list or editing an article about yourself is generally not done as it is considered self-promotion. If you belong on the list, explain that on the talk page of the relevant article and if another editor agrees that you belong on that list, they will add you to the article.
The link that you added showed up in red. This is known as a "redlink" and denotes the fact that there is no wikipedia article at the title pointed to by that link. I just checked and confirmed that, as at right now, there is no wikipedia article for Darlie Brewster. With lists like this one, it is normal that the article about the person be created first. Otherwise we could end up with indescriminate lists of people with no additional information to link to.
I would suggest that you join the LGBT studies WikiProject. I'll leave a message on the wikiproject talk page to see if we can get one of the other members to create an article about you. If you provide a reasonable amount of good quality reference material, this should be quite easy to achieve. I haven't currently got time to look through the information that you put on my talk page, but it may be enough to get at least a stub article created. If that article is created, then someone could also revert my removal of your entry from the list.
Also, when editing talk pages, new sections have a heading and go to the bottom of the page. It is considered rude to put new material at the top of a talk page and without a heading. The easy way to do this the right way is to use the "new section" tab at the top of the page to begin editing. --AliceJMarkham (talk) 14:16, 15 June 2008 (UTC)