[Koha-devel] Gender-neutral pronouns

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

+1

El mié., 19 de abr. de 2017 4:23 AM, Alex Sassmannshausen <
alex.sassmannshausen at gmail.com> escribió:

> Hi Eric,
>
> Eric Phetteplace writes:
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I opened bug #18432
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18432 because I
> saw several places in the Koha codebase where the pronoun "he" was being
> used to refer to a generic third person who could be of any
> > gender. Jonathan Druart noted that this should be a coding guideline, as
> otherwise new instances of gendered pronouns might continue to be added.
> Perhaps it belongs on the "Terminology" page of the wiki?
> >
> > So here's my proposal. I'm trying to be concise.
> >
> > ----
> >
> > Use gender neutral pronouns
> >
> > When referring to a person who could be of any gender, you should use
> the words they/them/their. This goes for code comments, text in templates,
> and strings in tests. For example, here's a string from a patrons test
> updated to be gender
> > neutral.
> >
> > Before:
> >
> > is( $total, $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J, "Kid growing and become a
> juvenile, he should pay " . ( $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J ) );
> >
> > After:
> >
> > is( $total, $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J, "Kid growing and become a
> juvenile, they should pay " . ( $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J ) );
> >
> > Gender neutral terms are preferable for a few reasons. They're more
> welcoming, showing that Koha expects users and contributors to be of any
> gender. They're also more accurate. Inappropriately using a particular
> gender can cause confusion,
> > leading someone to believe that code operates differently based on the
> value of borrowers.sex, for instance.
> >
> > ----
>
> I like the proposal, thanks for putting it together!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Alex
>
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