Genderidentity

Sandro Knauß sknauss at kde.org
Thu Jan 6 18:55:49 GMT 2022


> What is going on? I need context here.

In GCompris  they use the sentence

"Place %n boy(s) and %n girl(s) in the center. Then split %n pieces of
candy equally between them."

and I am not happy that gender is used as a separation attribute of to 
distinct sets. GCompris wants to teach easy arithmetic in this lesson. 

> 
> Am Do., 6. Jan. 2022 um 12:20 Uhr schrieb Sandro Knauß <sknauss at kde.org>:
> > Sorry, that follow the side discussion, that has not connected to the
> > translation problem in first place.
> > 
> > > yes, the aim is to have 2 distinct sets for the pedagogical point of
> > > view,
> > > it's a bit more complicated.
> > 
> > Me personally is not and was never ok with the gender the society gave me.
> > And I fight hard against the binary gender thinking everywhere. And I'm
> > very happy that we finally have a third Gender option for official
> > documents in Germany called non-binary (German: Divers). Today I had some
> > with public authorities about something else, but they were aware of this
> > and didn't put me automatically into the binary gender box. I was very
> > amazed.
> > 
> > And than I read about this thread, that a program that is made for kids is
> > teaching them the binary gender system and are telling me that is a good
> > thing from a pedagogical point of view: Sorry NO! This is discriminating
> > and making it less likely that we will overcome with the discrimination.
> > 
> > I know it is hard but we should find a separation attribute, that is not
> > discriminating e.g. color of cloths.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > sandro







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