Story time: This weekend, someone thought they could harass or hurt me by adding my Wikipedia page to the "Transgender Women Writers" category. You can see that here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tarah_Wheeler&action=history

But there's an interesting issue here. You can see that immediately upon a change like this to a Biography of a Living Person page, Wikipedia automatically appends a tag cautioning that being added to a “trans” category might be “vandalism.”

How fascinating that the act of adding someone to a category about being transgender is so problematic that it requires an automated vandalism tag.

Now, I don't think you can *accuse* someone of being something that it's not wrong to be. Wikipedia has an accuracy problem, for sure. I don't actually happen to be trans, but I strongly object to the idea that being labeled as trans is something of which to be ashamed, or which must be concealed.

I'm a lot of things. I'm an international hacking champion, a cybersecurity expert, a polyglot, a tanguera, a best-selling author, a well-paid keynote speaker, a public company executive, a foreign policy expert, a WSOP-cashing poker player, a cyberwar scholar, an essayist, a martial artist, a board of director member, an audiobook performer, and a lot of other things that tell you that I’m a congenital overachiever. Two nights ago a woman at a bar hit on me by saying I had a cut-glass jawline, which I found extremely flattering.

So, I'm just. flat. better. than lackluster men online trying to shame me by "accusing" me of something that isn’t wrong. Plus I wear a fedora with superior style.

In related news, feel free to edit women’s Wikipedia pages to add things they have actually done, instead of letting these incels make women’s public personae solely about their own threatened egos.