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Article Selection

Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

Article title: Conversion therapy
Article Evaluation: The article does not mention the still common practice of conversion therapy on asexual people, frequently under the term "Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder", employing multiple techniques including a variety of medication and "sex therapy". (A new medication was approved by the FDA in 2019, despite extensive and common side effects.) While maintaining neutrality likely requires that this be listed as a "controversy" - although the discussion of conversion therapy on other sexualities is pretty clear in its disavowal - it certainly merits discussion. There is an argument to be made that this discussion should instead be in Sexual orientation change efforts (where there is also no mention of asexuality), although the APA's definition of conversion therapy includes asexuality. (Though they may not realize that.) The Talk page for Conversion Therapy has extensive discussion about the addition of CT on transgender people but no discussion of asexuality. There is also no mention of asexuality on the Talk page of Sexual orientation change efforts.
Sources: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/story?id=6656358&page=1 (discussion on asexual advocates arguing against the inclusion of HSDD in the current DSM); https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-new-treatment-hypoactive-sexual-desire-disorder-premenopausal-women (new medication from 2019); https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-006-9142-3 (study describing the relationship between asexuality and sexual desire); https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19419899.2013.774163 (discussion of asexuality and HSDD); https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/asexual-person-partners-doctor-fixed-sexual-urges-attraction-lgbtq-a7966596.html (interview with an asexual person pressured by partners to get conversion therapy); hypoactive sexual desire disorder (obviously not a source in itself, but a good point for sources on types of "treatment")

Option 2

Article title: Dora Richter
Article Evaluation: Dora Richter is a very important person in transgender history (the first known trans person to undergo complete GCS), but the article on her is a stub. While there is a shortage of historical information on her, surely more can be mustered than this.
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Option 3

Article title: Marina the Monk
Article Evaluation: According to WP:GENDERID articles should use the last self-identified name and gender identity of the subject of an article. Saint Marinos was only revealed to have been assigned female at birth after his death, yet his article exclusively uses "she" and "Marina", only even mentioning the name under which Marinos lived and died twice. Accounts of Marinos's life describe him as having consistently referred to himself as male, even when doing so caused him extreme hardship, clearly making it so that following the WP:GenderID rules he should be referred to with male pronouns. One of the citations given is even "Transgender Lives in the Middle Ages" but absolutely no mention of Marinos as a transgender figure is made in the article. Even if there were debate to be had over what name and pronouns should be used, Marinos's status as a gender-transitioning saint is definitely notable and should be mentioned. (I've found several articles on the topic in the past but don't have time to link them now; apologies.)
Sources: https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/outcasts/downloads/betancourt_transgender_lives.pdf

Option 4

Article title: Lucy Hicks Anderson
Article Evaluation: Lucy Hicks Anderson was one of the earliest known African-American transgender women, but her article is Start-class. I would like to attempt to find further sources, or at least go in more depth on the ones already cited.
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Option 5

Article title: Blue and Not So Pink
Article Evaluation: Very short stub on an award-winning film dealing with homosexuality, gender identity, and homophobic violence in Venezuela. As it did win a number of awards there are several articles available; at minimum, plot and character sections could be added.
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Option 6

Article title

Pink Triangle Park

Article Evaluation

Pink Triangle Park is the first permanent memorial in America to the gay people killed during the Holocaust. It's beautiful and important and the article is only a few lines long. There's not all that much citable information about it available; I went on a tour of it, but can hardly cite the tour guide. The website has a fair amount of information but has a possible conflict of interest. (Although I'm not sure that applies to websites of such things as non-profit memorials.) I doubt I could spend a full semester on it, but I'd like to make some effort to improve the article at least a bit.