pearwaldorf | (no subject)

Somebody emailed Dreamwidth about their concerns over the wording of something in their diversity statement. Part of the response?

Someone else actually pointed this problem out to us today as well, and the minute they did, it was a moment of "sudden and horrible realization that what I actually meant didn't survive the transition from my brain to the screen". When we wrote the diversity statement, we actually did mean for "gender" to cover not just cisgender individuals, but also transgender, genderqueer, and other non-cisgendered expressions and presentations as well.

It took hearing feedback from someone else to realize that just saying "gender" wasn't sufficiently inclusive, since most people see "gender" and automatically assume it to intend only cisgender/binary-gendered presentation. I actually and honestly did not realize that it could be read like that -- which I know is not an excuse! -- and the minute it was pointed out to me, it was a case of "head, meet desk". I do sincerely apologize for both the oversight and the accidental exclusion, and thank you very much for also bringing it to our attention.

That's how you do it.

(Incidentally, I have two more invite codes if anybody needs one.)