Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Gender

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1. There are two and only two genders.
2. Okay, then there are two and only two biological genders.
3. Gender is determined solely by biology.
4. Okay, it’s mostly determined by biology, right?
5. Please tell me it’s determined by DNA.
6. Gender can be reliably determined through visual means. After all, no man would ever wear a burka.
7. Once gender is set, it never changes.
8. Even if the gender can change, it will only change from the one value to the other value.
9. Only one gender can be “active” at the same time.
10. We’re tracking gender now, so we’ve always tracked it.
11. I only need to be concerned with human gender.
12. "Gender" and "sex" are the same thing.
13. My system needs to care about users' gender.
14. Everyone has a gender.
15. I can infer a corresponding pronoun when a user's gender is known.
16. A person has a single, legal gender
17. Passports (and birth certificates, and driver's licenses) only have two sexes
18. A person's birth certificate agrees with their passport or driver's license as to their gender
19. Everyone knows what their gender on their birth certificate is
20. Only men have Y-linked diseases
21. Chromosomes correspond to genitalia at birth
22. There are only two possible chromosome combinations

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