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Written by HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml on 2025-01-14 at 17:13

I have a 64-bit gender

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Written by tias@discuss.tchncs.de on 2025-01-14 at 18:34

I’ve been thinking about this now and again. IMO gender, if one insists on tracking it at all (which I mostly find counterproductive), would need to be a vector / tuple of floating-point values. The components would be something like:

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Written by flora_explora@beehaw.org on 2025-01-15 at 14:35

In how far does gender change in your hypothetical metric with transition. If I take hormones for example, I would influence this metric.

Another confusing point would be how you try tracking gender, but having a gender identity value inside the metric. How would you even track this gender then?

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Written by tias@discuss.tchncs.de on 2025-01-16 at 09:01

All of these are measurable. I’m not sure what’s the source of your confusion. Yes the terminology becomes a bit ambiguous unless we make up a new word/term but gender identity is just one dimension of the tuple. It can be measured with a standardized questionnaire.

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