#gender

SecondUniverse (she/her/they) @SecondUniverse@autistics.life · 6d ago

Are we doing pronouns wrong? Telling someone your preferred pronouns and having that respected can be validating, but it also gives away a little power. It's giving the gender Nazis an easy way to be mean. What about modifying the first person pronoun? As a nonbinary person I am quite happy "I" is not gendered, but if you want to assert your gender, maybe using "Im/Ir/Ix" (or whatever) might be more useful. Instead of a once-and-done pronoun intro, you use the first person pronoun almost every other sentence. You are not depending on other people to adopt language. Secondly, in addition to wildly gendering "I", why not normalize they/them for everyone. This takes away the linguistic platform for misgendering microagressions. For me, gender has always been unwelcome and problematic. My apologies if I have not captured the nuances of pronoun usage from other perspectives. It is certainly not my intention to cause offence or invalidate any identity. #trans #gender #nonbinary #linguistics

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Bamu Rubi Teibo @Bamurubi@mastodon.social · 6d ago

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@SecondUniverse@autistics.life I like your second idea better than your first. So many things are unecessarily gendered already without adding to it. I lived in a community that spoke a language with no gender (so one word for he, she, it, him her, his, its). How refreshing that was! I also realised how in English we always ask the gender of a baby so we know how to refer to it, making gender a big deal right from day one of life outside the womb.😞 #gender #language

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TrueNorthSpice 🇨🇦 @TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world · Aug 07, 2026

👩 👨 🚶‍♀️ "Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth" Simone de Beauvior #Gender #Equality #HumanRights

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naturallymoth @naturallymoth@mastodon.social · Aug 04, 2026

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Intro post! Hi Mastodon! I’m Ash and I’m a trans woman who loves connecting with others on everything from anime to music and beyond. Join me if you’re looking for #trans #queer #feminism #poetry #anime #gender #myheroacademia or really anything! It’s lovely to meet you, and know that you are valid and a badass! #introduction

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Gender Census @gendercensus@fediverse.gendercensus.com · Aug 02, 2026

RE: https://fediverse.gendercensus.com/@gendercensus/116913489125295782 I suspect we'll break 30,000 responses today! :) Is your gender homemade, artisanal and/or gluten-free? Please check out our language survey: https://survey.gendercensus.com #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #gender #survey

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Gender Census @gendercensus@fediverse.gendercensus.com

The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! https://survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #gender #survey #LGBT #LGBTQ

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derPUPE @derPUPE@chaos.social · Jul 25, 2026

nerdiest #CSD shirt so far: "404 #gender not found"

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@alexlomas@infosec.exchange · Jul 25, 2026

This feels like a fedi question: Does anyone have resources both for older parents, and their kids, for explaining #gender and transition? Something like a coming out guide, but also how to support your parents, giving them space to understand new things. Reading material is probably preferred over online given the age involved.

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org · Apr 15, 2026

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Update. "This study examines how editorial roles are distributed by gender across a national platform-based journal system…[We] distinguish four role categories—executive, operational, support, and symbolic…Women are significantly less likely to hold executive editorial positions…and more likely to occupy operational…and support roles…When these roles are aggregated into a single gatekeeping indicator, the gender coefficient becomes non-significant—not because stratification is absent, but because opposing effects cancel each other out. Role-disaggregated analysis is therefore a necessary condition for valid inference about editorial gender equity in role-differentiated settings." https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9152762/v1 #Gender #GenderBias

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org · Apr 24, 2026

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Update. "Despite overall gains since 2015, women remain underrepresented in scientific organizations compared with their share of the global scientific workforce (31.1% of researchers worldwide in 2022). In national academies, women represent on average 19% of members in 2025, up from 12% in 2015 and 16% in 2020, with proportions ranging from 2% to nearly 40%. The share of academies with very low representation (fewer than 10% women members) has fallen by around half since 2015."

#Gender #GenderBias

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org · May 03, 2026

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Update. In the field of emergency medicine, most journals (66%) did not comply with the Sex and Gender Equity in Research (#SAGER) guidelines. However, those that did had "significantly" higher citation impact than those that did not. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6ct1w42s #Gender #GenderBias #Medicine

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org · May 11, 2026

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Update. "Early parenthood was associated with the largest gender disparities in scientific citations, favoring men, while these disparities diminished among those who became parents after age 35." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-026-01668-4 #Gender #GenderBias

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org · Jun 03, 2026

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Update. "An analysis of first and last authorship in journals tracked by Nature Index reveals a persistent gender imbalance…indicating that recognition in top-tier academic publishing has not kept pace with women’s growing presence in research. Among the natural-sciences journals tracked by the index, women represented 29% of first-author positions and 17% of last-author positions in 2025. These figures have improved only slightly over the past decade." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01495-8 Also see the data. https://www.nature.com/nature-index/author-gender-ratio #Gender #GenderBias

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org · Jun 29, 2026

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Update. "We found that gendered male authors represented 60% of first and last authors, 65% of first and last authorships (FLAs), and 91% of highly productive authors (those with ≥ 10 FLAs). Last authorships were particularly male-dominated, with 2.7 times as many last authorships by gendered male authors as by gendered female authors." https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0352401 #Gender #GenderBias

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org · Jul 07, 2026

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Update. "There is no clear evidence of systemic gender differences in funding success rates. However…if funding rates do not show gender differences, there are still clear gender differences in the system overall, with women representing only 36% of all applicants. Moreover, the paper warns against concluding that gender bias is absent simply because funding rates appear equal." https://researchonresearch.org/new-rori-study-finds-no-gender-differences-in-funding-rates-but-warns-equal-numbers-can-mask-bias/ Primary source https://rori.figshare.com/articles/preprint/How_do_grant_application_criteria_influence_gender_differences_in_research_funding_RoRI_Working_Paper_No_22_/32881505 #Funding #Gender #GenderBias

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org · Jul 12, 2026

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Update. In Spanish cancer research, "the number of papers authored by men was greater than that authored by women, although there was a gradual trend towards parity. Interestingly, the two most prolific authors are women, and women have larger co-authorship networks than men do. Funding is an important factor in determining whether an article is published in the first or second quartile [of #JIF journals], as is collaboration between two or more countries. However, the percentage of women and preferred authorship does not determine the [citation] impact of a publication, and as the percentage of women increases, the citation count decreases." https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.2086 #Gender #GenderBias

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org · Jul 24, 2026

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Update. "We calculated the ratio between the overall share of female authors and the share of female corresponding authors [in >220 million publications by ≈ 60 million authors, over the last 125 years]…Our analyses reveal a continuous increase in overall female participation, rising from approximately 10% in the 1910s to over 40% in recent years…However, over the past two decades, this trend has globally inverted, indicating a decline of the traditional [disparity]…Despite these overarching trends, significant disciplinary and regional differences persist." https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15059 #Gender #GenderBias

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petersuber @petersuber@fediscience.org · Jul 24, 2026

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Update. "In STEM fields, women first and last authors make fewer novelty claims [defined as "rhetorical statements that frame research as novel"] than men, and this is associated with fewer citations. In humanities and social sciences, novelty claims remain positively associated with citations, but there are no gender differences in their use or in citations." https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432261462166 #Gender #GenderBias #Disciplines

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Richard Michael Blaber @rmblaber1956@mastodon.social · Jul 23, 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/23/divided-world-pride-hot-show-film-musical Yes, things WERE bad - VERY bad - for #LGBTIQA people; so why are we letting things get bad AGAIN? Why are we allowing divisions in our #community to be exploited by right-wing #politicians & #TERFs? We need to defend #transgender people & #TransRights, irrespective of our own #gender #identity. @PinkNews @HarriettMB@toot.wales @christineburns@mastodon.green @transactualuk@mastodon.social @transworld@masto.ai.

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Ace of Cosmic Space🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍ @aceofcosmicspace@lgbtqia.space · Jul 23, 2026

RE: https://todon.nl/@proudnb/116950220650023920 This is a great reminder. You are not obligated to continue to use labels that no longer work for you(or use any specific labels at all). If you happen to find labels that fit better as you go along on your gender(and sexuality)journey, it's more than okay to then discard old labels. It's okay to try a new label for a while, and then decide to go back to others too! It's *your* journey. You get to decide. #genderjourney #sexuality #gender #itsyourjourney #LGBTQIA2S #lgbtqiaplus #transgender #bisexual #nonbinary #choice #gendereuphoria

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Eric Lawton @EricLawton@kolektiva.social · Jul 22, 2026

We Shouldn’t Assign Attributes For Life Only immutable and permanently important facts about the event of your birth should be assigned and recorded on your birth certificate. That excludes race, sex and number of fingers. #sex #gender #bigotry http://ericlawton.org/2026/07/22/we-shouldnt-assign-attributes-for-life/

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