A Wikipedia article created earlier this year about the term “adult human female” characterizes it as “hate speech” against transgender individuals. The page, created by an editor who has smeared numerous conservative figures, was added last month to a navigation box about President Donald Trump’s second term that is included on hundreds of articles and connects the term to claimed “persecution” of transgender individuals under Trump.
During an interview last Friday for the United Kingdom’s Channel 4 News about his new book The Seven Rules of Trust, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales was asked about Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s claims about a “woke takeover” of the site. Arguing that just reading Wikipedia would disprove the claim, he cited an exchange with someone on social media who asked “What is a woman?” calling it a “gotcha” question. He stated that checking Wikipedia’s article on women shows “woman” defined as “adult human female” (technically, “adult female human”) and this would rebut claims Wikipedia is “crazy, woke left” as critics have alleged.
Had Wales checked the article specifically on the term “adult human female” instead, he would see it described in the introduction as “a slogan adopted by anti-gender and gender-critical (also known as TERF) movements” fol
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