Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Gender and sexuality

The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to gender-related disputes or controversies or people associated with them (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Arbitration Committee decisions

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Contentious topics

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Last modified 14 December 2022

Gender-related disputes or controversies and associated people are designated as a contentious topic.

Special rules for close challenges

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Last modified 21 October 2025

In any challenge to the closure of a formal discussion within the WP:GENSEX topic area (e.g. an RfC or AfD), users who participated in the underlying discussion are limited to at most two comments, not exceeding a combined total of 250 words. Uninvolved administrators may remove violating comments, in whole or in part, as an Arbitration enforcement action, and may use repeated violations as the basis for other sanctions.

Guidance for administrators

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Standard set of restrictions

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Any uninvolved administrator may impose the standard set of restrictions in this topic area for up to one year:

Individual restrictions

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  • sitewide and partial blocks,
  • topic bans and page bans (from the entire contentious topic, a subtopic, or specified pages within the topic),
  • interaction bans,
  • revert restrictions,
  • word limits per discussion

Page restrictions

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  • page protection,
  • revert restrictions,
  • the "consensus required" restriction,
  • the "enforced BRD" restriction,
  • word limits for all participants in a specific discussion

Clarifications and amendments

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Templates

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The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

User notifications

Editnotices

Talk page notice