To fix it they've released a press release to tech blogs which will bring older and more male-identifying people in
Very meta
Not intended as snarky, but I was slightly jarred by the ACLU’s removal of the word “woman” from a Ruth Bader Ginsburg quote yesterday, and wondered whether this was now ‘a thing’ (at least in the US).
I try to remove gender references in all of my comments, but in this instance it was relevant so I went with the most inclusive option I could think of
No idea if that's a thing for you folks, I'm in the UK. I'd have to look up ACLU to see what it stands for
I think this is actually the right approach. Some 'balancing' algorithm would have to make assumptions about what's normal, then then the excluded participants wouldn't even show up in the research data.
Preemptively tacking on qualifiers can bury the actual meaning of the idea you're trying to communicate.
If I'm doing that wrong, I'll change my ways. e.g the person saying that it hints towards folks not being men or women if they have transitioned and we use different words which is a fair point, I'll have to look into that.
As for losing the meaning of my comment - A lot of my comments get downvoted because I'm crap at getting an idea down without editing it (we're on the 5th edit as I write). That is nothing new.
If my comment is meaningless give it a downvote
I'm not kidding, recently I read advice for lube for "people born with a vagina".
Sex is not gender, it's detrimental for communication to mix the two.
“… before many people know that they are pregnant.”
“… pregnant patients …”
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/09/texas-abortion-ban-f...
If anything my frequent lack of punctuation needs correcting first, that has caused infinitely more confusion. Weirdly in 20 years of forum use I've never had anyone start a discussion about it.. :)
I don't question trans women were included too, but your phrasing made me doubt if this Tiktoker's audience was mainly trans women.