@jpmc26 - I think you are erroneously conflating physiological sex with gender identity. These are two different narrative frameworks. We can discuss the flaws in either, but we shouldn't be confused about how each is distinct from the other. Also I think you are seeking to turn this into a Culture Wars issue.

I suspect what more people are bothered about wrt MC is the freedom of written expression / personnel / due process issue, coupled with Stack Overflow's seeming inability to exercise reflection, introspection and contrition.

@Rounin My apologies for being unclear. I'm not suggesting what I've described is is how most people understand the issue, but I am asserting it to be the underlying explanation for SE's behavior.

@Rounin I'm actually explicitly distinguishing between the two. The he/she construct was developed for physiological sex. SE has adopted as a matter of official policy the notion that these language constructs must be redefined instead in terms of "gender identity," and I'm asserting that "gender identity" is not a property of a person that can be determined objectively.

(I should say the major driving factor of the underlying explanation for SE's behavior, as there are some other elements to consider.)

As for me "turning this into a Culture Wars issue," I don't see how it could possibly not be one irrespective of whether I point it out or not. Do you have some other explanation for why SE staff would react so extremely just to a proposed CoC that explicitly makes rules regarding this particular cultural debate being modestly questioned? I'm certainly open to hearing other ideas, but I don't see how you can explain any of this without relating it back to the cultural debate.

@Vipertecpro Nobody does. That's the whole point.

@jpmc26 It has been repeated time and again, but I'll say it again: Monica was accused of violating the current CoC at the time. Not the updated one we have now. Unclear as it was, it was never a case of violating a future CoC.

If this issue is that big then why it's still not open with everybody, let's say just all moderator should make a vote whether she stayed or not otherwise the general public will feel unfair decision because she has volunterly become a moderator and it could happen to anybody.

I'm very fast learner, so please if anyone can let me see the bigger picture here about what's going to happen to her and why ?