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. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ I was born a dumb, ugly and work-loving kid, then I got swapped on ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ the maternity ward. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
