Critical_Insight@feddit.uk to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoDoes Hexbear mandate all users to specify their preferred pronouns?message-squaremessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down111
arrow-up140arrow-down1message-squareDoes Hexbear mandate all users to specify their preferred pronouns?Critical_Insight@feddit.uk to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square104fedilink
minus-squareemergencyfood@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoThe point is not to make you reveal your gender, but to make you explicitly choose a gender, thus normalising the idea that gender should not be assumed. Transphobes will object to this and get banned. At least, that’s the theory.
minus-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI just default to gender neutral terms if context clues don’t suggest a specific one. Just make a rule that transphobes and other bigots will be banned like everyone else.
The point is not to make you reveal your gender, but to make you explicitly choose a gender, thus normalising the idea that gender should not be assumed. Transphobes will object to this and get banned. At least, that’s the theory.
I just default to gender neutral terms if context clues don’t suggest a specific one.
Just make a rule that transphobes and other bigots will be banned like everyone else.