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<p>+1 for trying to achieve gender neutrality</p>
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Phetteplace:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default">Hi list,</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">I opened bug #18432 <a
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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?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">So here's my proposal. I'm trying to
be concise.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><b>Use gender neutral pronouns</b></div>
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<div class="gmail_default">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.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">Before<b>:</b></div>
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<div class="gmail_default">is( $total, $enrolmentfee_K +
$enrolmentfee_J, "Kid growing and become a juvenile, he should
pay " . ( $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J ) );<br>
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<div class="gmail_default">After:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">is( $total, $enrolmentfee_K +
$enrolmentfee_J, "Kid growing and become a juvenile, they
should pay " . ( $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J ) );<br>
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<div class="gmail_default">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.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">I hope that's clear. I'm happy to
reword it, and to attend the next Koha developers meeting to
explain further if need be.</div>
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<div>Eric Phetteplace</div>
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