Re: [Gendergap] Seeking advice on how to talk to other lists about sex-issue.

2013-10-27 Thread Carol Moore dc
On 10/25/2013 7:35 PM, Risker wrote: It's controversial because there are women who assumed a male role, but were definitely women in their personal life. So your definition there would be to assign them the male gender but the female sex. And I disagreewhat's being assigned there is sex,

Re: [Gendergap] Seeking advice on how to talk to other lists about sex-issue.

2013-10-26 Thread Gobonobo
Apart from the discussion on the P21 property's talk page, there is currently a proposal on Wikidata to create a 'gender identity' property. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Person#Gender_identity Gobonobo On 10/25/2013 06:35 PM, Risker wrote: It's controversial

Re: [Gendergap] Seeking advice on how to talk to other lists about sex-issue.

2013-10-25 Thread Joseph Reagle
On 10/25/2013 12:56 PM, Klein,Max wrote: Well when Markus released his research on-list, I applauded his innovative methods and techniques. I also wanted to remind that forcing this binary or trinary classification onto people is not something that the software is making us do, but rather the

Re: [Gendergap] Seeking advice on how to talk to other lists about sex-issue.

2013-10-25 Thread Risker
I remember seeing something about this on Wikidata and just not having enough hours in the day to comment at the time. There are three issues being intermingled here: *Sex, which is a biological marker determined by primary and secondary sexual characteristics such as breasts, penises, uteruses,

Re: [Gendergap] Seeking advice on how to talk to other lists about sex-issue.

2013-10-25 Thread Ryan Kaldari
The attribute that is being assigned by property 21 on Wikidata (as it is actually being used) is not sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It is simply gender, and should be labeled as such. For the majority of people, we don't actually know for sure what their sex, sexual orientation, or

Re: [Gendergap] Seeking advice on how to talk to other lists about sex-issue.

2013-10-25 Thread Risker
It's controversial because there are women who assumed a male role, but were definitely women in their personal life. So your definition there would be to assign them the male gender but the female sex. And I disagreewhat's being assigned there is sex, not gender. Risker On 25 October