But you can’t avoid gender identities as long as you are speaking English.
There are 3 ways about this:
You codify that you remove them from communication. It’s pretty common on HN to say “author”, “op” or “parent” instead of he or she. Many parliaments have similar ways of talking, where you don’t use 3rd person pronouns.
Gender identities are assigned to people and they just have to accept it (this could be by a central authority like a government or on-the-fly by whoever is communicating or a mix), and communication can use 3rd person pronouns naturally.
Or, people assign their own identities, in which case, other people might have to be told which pronouns to use. Older systems, often still in use by airlines and hotels asks for salutations, but they are problematic as they are both too specific and not specific enough. They tend to require some sort of job or educational background in order to be gender neutral and they are often interpreted as containing marital status information for female salutations (miss vs Mrs)
I think it’s weird to say the Python community is excluding you because they went with option 3 and not 1.
And lastly I think that saying that a community that asks you to voluntarily add a country sticker to you profile is exclusionary is a more than a stretch.
There are 3 ways about this:
You codify that you remove them from communication. It’s pretty common on HN to say “author”, “op” or “parent” instead of he or she. Many parliaments have similar ways of talking, where you don’t use 3rd person pronouns.
Gender identities are assigned to people and they just have to accept it (this could be by a central authority like a government or on-the-fly by whoever is communicating or a mix), and communication can use 3rd person pronouns naturally.
Or, people assign their own identities, in which case, other people might have to be told which pronouns to use. Older systems, often still in use by airlines and hotels asks for salutations, but they are problematic as they are both too specific and not specific enough. They tend to require some sort of job or educational background in order to be gender neutral and they are often interpreted as containing marital status information for female salutations (miss vs Mrs)
I think it’s weird to say the Python community is excluding you because they went with option 3 and not 1.
And lastly I think that saying that a community that asks you to voluntarily add a country sticker to you profile is exclusionary is a more than a stretch.