> Those dynamics are central to Fram’s ban. Egged on by Fram’s insistence that the foundation had actually banned him because of a grudge, and stymied by the fo

> Those dynamics are central to Fram’s ban. Egged on by Fram’s insistence that the foundation had actually banned him because of a grudge, and stymied by the foundation’s refusal to name the complainant, Wikipedians began to scour his history on the platform, looking for someone to blame. Much of that blame fell, perhaps predictably, on a woman and a transgender editor. Much of that blame fell, predictably, on the one and only person we know that the Wikimedia Foundation had taken the essentially unprecedented step of bypassing the standard community process to intervene against Fram on behalf of. (Because she publicly said so on her userpage, and Fram also confirmed this.) Framing it as though folks were just picking on some random woman because of misogyny is downright dishonest. This framing is especially dubious since this seems to involve an area where the Wikimedia Foundation has had conflict-of-interest issues for a long time and where people's distrust of the Foundation demonstrably has nothing to do with gender or sex - the Wikipedian in Residence program. The Gibraltapedia fiasco, for example, involved entirely white cishet men so far as I can tell.