- From: Léonie Watson <lwatson@tetralogical.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 10:21:56 +0100
- To: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>, Melanie Richards <Melanie.Richards@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Inclusion and Diversity Community Group <public-idcg@w3.org>
On 23/07/2020 10:09, Florian Rivoal wrote: [...] > I agree In the vast majority of the cases, they/them is the way to go, and we should encourage that practice (which I believe to be already widespread in W3C specs). > > I just ran a grep for "his" or "her" on a few specs I work on, and most hits were in the acknowledgement section. For instance "Special thanks goes [...] Melanie Richards for her illustrations of the various alignment keywords." in https://drafts.csswg.org/css-align/. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, and using "their" in such cases wouldn't be right. Some people might be OK with it, but others would feel misgendered. > > So, if PubRules or Bikeshed and Respec are made to warn about uses of gendered pronouns, it would be good to have a way to mark some uses as deliberate, for cases like that. I don't know enough about how PubRules works to know if a way to deliberately markup exceptions would be possible, but we could ask. In the meantime, the guidance offered when the use of a gender specific pronoun is found could perhaps be something like: Use they/them instead of gendered pronouns like she/her and he/him, unless the preferred gender identity of the person is known. These may not be the best words, but hopefully you get the idea. Léonie.-- Director @TetraLogical https://tetralogical.com
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