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> and the comment is factually correct in saying that the representation of women consists mostly of trans women It's almost impossible that that could be true

• s1artibartfast 4y ago
  Not impossible if you're actively selecting for that and discriminating against those born as women.
• naasking 4y ago
  > It's almost impossible that that could be true based on demographics (50% vs around ~0.5% for women vs trans women) It would be almost impossible if admin membership were drawn completely randomly from the population. It would also be impossible for over 80% of computer science graduates to be male given the same assumption. Computer science is observably dominated by males though, therefore perhaps membership isn't drawn completely randomly from the population in either case. I'm not privy to the demographics of Wikipedia's admin membership so I don't know if the comment in question is factually accurate, my point is only that it doesn't follow from the comment alone that it's prejudicial against trans people or that it constituted a direct personal attack. At least, it's not more prejudicial than accounting for race or gender in a positive context, since some people think any consideration of these factors, positive or negative, is unjustly prejudicial.