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Hey there @Rikiwilchins: thanks for making some contributions to the Karen Ulane article. Her story is important, so anything you can add to enrich it is welcome. I reverted the edits you made only because you did not cite any sources for the text you changed. In fact, you left the citations in from the previous version that would actually seem to contradict what you said. I want to be clear, I'm not saying that the information you added is incorrect. I don't know if it's correct or not because you didn't cite sources. Take a moment and gather some citations and then make your edits, and make sure you pay attention to some of the details like removing citations for information you are overriding. Thanks again for taking time to improve the article! Sevey13 (talk) 21:44, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry. I consulted a lawyer friend of mine who has written peer review articles on this, and used her text. She's an authority. Alas, she did not include citations, and I'm in the middle of two books and don't have the bandwidth to run them down. Hence the old cites. :-{ However, the information is indeed incorrect, and refers to a case involving a gay man that is not at all germane. Sorry I don't have more. Thank you for all you do. Rikiwilchins (talk) 21:50, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
That's quite alright. I see you're also relatively new to editing, and you're doing it in good faith. A lot of this just comes with time. Especially when it comes to things like case law, a source really needs to be cited because it's generally not common knowledge.
I was the one who did a major overhaul of that article a few years ago, so I keep an eye on it. The source that I cited for that claim is behind a paywall, but I have a copy. Specifically, it was this text from [[Richard Green]] published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
"In 2003, a male-to-female transsexual psychiatrist brought suit against her former employer under Title VII. She was in gender transition but advised to avoid wearing overly feminine clothing. She was referred to with male pronouns. The trial court found that she was not claiming protection as a transsexual. Rather, she was claiming to have been discriminated against for failure to ‘‘act like a man.’’ ‘‘Transsexuals are not genderless, they are either male or female and thus protected under title VII to the extent that they are discriminated against on the basis of sex’’ (Centiola v Potter, 2003)."
Based on what you said, though, I looked into it a bit more and you're correct, that's not what the Centola v Potter case was about at all. So that leads to the question of what the heck was the name of the court case Green was referring to? Because if it's from 2003, it would be earlier than the cases you mentioned. A brief look through Green's citations didn't turn anything up. I also notice that he apparently misspelled "Centola" in the peer-reviewed article, which is troubling. Unfortunately, Green is dead so I can't email him to ask him what's going on. I'm going to edit out the section altogether until someone, maybe one of us, has a chance to add the correct information. I'm not sure I have the bandwidth to do it immediately either.
So I checked with my lawyer friend, Jillian Weiss, and she assures me this is the URL for the correct cite. All above my paygrade I'm afraid but hope it helps.
