It's official business if you think of it this (twisted) way:
1. assume that transgenderism/transsexuality is not a real thing, but something concocted by troublemakers trying to push for policy justification of sinful alternative lifestyles.
2. then, listing someone as transgender/transsexual in a respectful manner could be construed as constituting an endorsement of the legitimacy of transgenderism/transsexuality.
3. since such actions are endorsements of the legitimacy of these movements or policy-pushing intentions, it follows that these actions are biased and not neutral, and thus deserved to be counterbalanced.
Then, furthermore:
4. a member of Congress believes 'emselves to be taking the responsibility of performing a public service to do (and command his/her staff to do) editing on Wikipedia to "correct" these perceived biases, wherein this (perceived) responsibility is based in their capacity as an elected official.
Now, without #4 (the green light from an elected member of Congress), the staff doing this could count as a public service under the logic presented in #1, #2, and #3, but it would still not be "official business".
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that "official business" thing seems like obvious bullshit to me anyway
1. assume that transgenderism/transsexuality is not a real thing, but something concocted by troublemakers trying to push for policy justification of sinful alternative lifestyles.
2. then, listing someone as transgender/transsexual in a respectful manner could be construed as constituting an endorsement of the legitimacy of transgenderism/transsexuality.
3. since such actions are endorsements of the legitimacy of these movements or policy-pushing intentions, it follows that these actions are biased and not neutral, and thus deserved to be counterbalanced.
Then, furthermore:
4. a member of Congress believes 'emselves to be taking the responsibility of performing a public service to do (and command his/her staff to do) editing on Wikipedia to "correct" these perceived biases, wherein this (perceived) responsibility is based in their capacity as an elected official.
Now, without #4 (the green light from an elected member of Congress), the staff doing this could count as a public service under the logic presented in #1, #2, and #3, but it would still not be "official business".