[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #36617: String gendering functions

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#36617: String gendering functions
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 Reporter:  bastho           |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  I18N             |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:
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Changes (by swissspidy):

 * version:  trunk =>


Comment:

 To know the user's gender we would need to have a profile field for that.
 Since there's more to gender than just male and female, discussions would
 begin about how to do this.

 Citing Helen's comment on #18003:

 > Whatever your own take is on gender labels and identification, I don't
 think that it's a good idea for WP to do something like add this to your
 .org profile, and the minefield this would put us in far outweighs
 whatever small benefit might be derived from having gendered labels. Also,
 assuming that people would be able to opt-out since that would be a proper
 option to have, languages would still have to come up with some kind of
 neutral term.

 For WordPress, sticking to neutral language is probably easiest.

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