Laura Kalbag

When Binary Code Won’t Accommodate Nonbinary People

Written by Meredith Broussard on Slate.

“This is not about math, but about human social values being superimposed on a mathematical system. The question becomes: Whose values are encoded in the system?”

“That trans and gender nonconforming people are excluded from or subjugated to information systems is a phenomenon [Anna Lauren Hoffmann] labels data violence, or ‘Harm inflicted on trans and gender nonconforming people not only by government-run systems, but also the information systems that permeate our everyday social lives.’”

Read ‘When Binary Code Won’t Accommodate Nonbinary People’ on the Slate site.

Tagged with: discrimination, gender, systemic issues.