Post #2602418
2026-04-17 08:29 UTC
@kevin@en.osm.town Imagine Wikidata had a category of ”woman” and ”black woman”. And a person's gender had to be one of them. And the official advice was that white women should be given the gender of “woman”, and black women should get ”black woman”.
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@kevin@en.osm.town 2026-04-17 12:00
@amapanda@en.osm.town I think I understand. I was seeing woman more as “we know she was a woman, unsure of anything more” whereas if we know she’s a black transgender woman we could specify that. Absolutely is an issue if we’re defaulting to white cis instead of using it as a generic. I missed that part. I’ll bring it up in the telegram if I have time today :)