I’m just - I’m not even “laugh so you don’t cry” on this, I am horrified. I can barely even read it.
This is a sign that the programming team — not some unrelated pinheads, but the five or six people who are supposed to be writing the code — have put strong, usable code last on their priorities. It comes behind marketing, behind ideology, and behind absurd identity politics.
My identity and dignity as a human being is less important than code.
That is, literally, what they just said.
I am less important than a bunch of bits on a computer somewhere.
Their ability to feed me gender-stereotyped pieces of impersonal advertising is more important than my need for a place where I can be honest and comfortable about who I am.
I don’t have any way to respond to this. I am floored.
This was the “last straw” for them. Because a website can’t match their pronoun to their gender field with ease, they are “out”. Like, damn.
I wish I could call a “last straw”, I could proclaim myself “out” of every fucking institution I’ve been put through that requires, REQUIRES, me to check “F” or “M” and doesn’t give the slightest shit about what pronoun I might prefer. Y’all, I’m out of all airports, I’m out of the DMV, I’m tearing up my birth certificate and my job applications and my college forms. If there’s no unisex bathroom, I will take my business elsewhere. But first, I will pee on you in front of everybody.
