Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> > > >* Package name : gender-guesser
> Debian has a Diversity Statement [1] which says that Debian welcomes
> people regardless of how they identify themselves. Trans people and
> non-binary people face a lot of discrimination, harrassment and
> bullying around the world. That bad treatment of these people is
> against Debian's core values.
Unless they're Jewish, believe that a woman should be allowed to abort a
Down syndrome fetus, believe that there's more than just a name to the
gender, or have a kind of transsexualism that matches their life's
experiences and is detectable by brain imaging but the loud group says
doesn't exist.
The inconsistency here is astounding.
> Therefore, the Debian Project wouldn't
> want to distribute software that appears to facilitate that kind of
> harassment, regardless of the software license it is released under.
> We might not want to distribute such software even if it also has
> non-harmful uses.
While not 100% accurate and thus shouldn't be used to determine the gender
of an _individual_, it's a very useful tools for analyzing larger datasets.
And where it comes to diversity, we so much need data rather than
assumptions.
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