"The review of more than 100 international medical studies of post-operative transsexuals by the University of Birmingham's aggressive research intelligence facility (Arif) found no robust scientific evidence that gender reassignment surgery is clinically effective."
It doesn't really matter whether he's right about gender dysphoria or not. Coraline is requesting his removal as a contributor because he has publicly stated his opinion on this matter, and that opinion is unacceptable to her.
As far as I know, what he did didn't even violate Coraline's own (excellent) contributor charter:
The issue hinges on the meaning of "represent". Merely mentioning in the bio of a personal account that I work on a certain open source project is not the same as asserting that this personal account represents the project. Reasonable people do not confuse these concepts.
SJWs willfully conflate these ideas, though, and that's because they're not working in good faith. In reality, they're trying to blacklist people whose political views they find abhorrent, and one weapon in their extensive arsenal is the unreasonable interpretation of reasonable-sounding policy.
It very much is the point. You are being a bully as much as everyone else in that Github thread was.
There are several other studies that show different results than the one you quoted. The data is mostly inconclusive, but there are plenty of cases where sex-reassignment therapy is effective:
> Coraline is requesting his removal as a contributor because he has publicly stated his opinion on this matter, and that opinion is unacceptable to her.
If he were posting on his own Twitter account and claimed no relationship to Opal, perhaps. But he lists himself as a core contributor. He's being particularly hurtful to a prominent group within the free software community (for whatever reason, the online free community attracts a higher proportion of transgendered people than the overall population). If he were saying that white men are all disgusting and should be removed from society, or that straight men should be forcibly castrated if accused of a rape, even in his private Twitter account, would you still want him as a prominent contributor?
duncan_bayne|10 years ago
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/jul/30/health.mental...
But that's not the point, is it?
It doesn't really matter whether he's right about gender dysphoria or not. Coraline is requesting his removal as a contributor because he has publicly stated his opinion on this matter, and that opinion is unacceptable to her.
As far as I know, what he did didn't even violate Coraline's own (excellent) contributor charter:
http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/1/0/
"This code of conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an individual is representing the project or its community."
rewqfdsa|10 years ago
SJWs willfully conflate these ideas, though, and that's because they're not working in good faith. In reality, they're trying to blacklist people whose political views they find abhorrent, and one weapon in their extensive arsenal is the unreasonable interpretation of reasonable-sounding policy.
jordigh|10 years ago
It very much is the point. You are being a bully as much as everyone else in that Github thread was.
There are several other studies that show different results than the one you quoted. The data is mostly inconclusive, but there are plenty of cases where sex-reassignment therapy is effective:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_reassignment_therapy#Effec...
> Coraline is requesting his removal as a contributor because he has publicly stated his opinion on this matter, and that opinion is unacceptable to her.
If he were posting on his own Twitter account and claimed no relationship to Opal, perhaps. But he lists himself as a core contributor. He's being particularly hurtful to a prominent group within the free software community (for whatever reason, the online free community attracts a higher proportion of transgendered people than the overall population). If he were saying that white men are all disgusting and should be removed from society, or that straight men should be forcibly castrated if accused of a rape, even in his private Twitter account, would you still want him as a prominent contributor?