Human Rights Campaign asked House Speaker John Boehner,...
Human Rights Campaign asked House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to investigate alleged “transphobic” edits by someone from an anonymous House IP address to the Wikipedia site for Netflix series Orange is the New Black, said Jeff Krehely, HRC vice president,…
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in a blog post Friday (http://bit.ly/1q1qRJM). A remark on Wikipedia about one of the show’s actresses, Laverne Cox, a transgender woman, was edited to read that she is a “'real man pretending to be a woman,'” it said. Wikipedia temporarily banned the anonymous House IP address from editing Wikipedia for one month Wednesday, said news reports. “When more and more Americans are recognizing and upholding the rights and dignity of transgender Americans, it is an unwelcome reminder of how much work remains to be done,” said Krehely. Boehner didn’t comment.