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With the spread of the LGBT+ movement, the connection between titles, personal names, and gender can also change. Some people would rather not identify as being
by cyorir 12y ago
With the spread of the LGBT+ movement, the connection between titles, personal names, and gender can also change. Some people would rather not identify as being male or female, and instead identify as a specific gender minority. This has different conseqeunces for different languages, since some have gender-specific naming and others have gender-specific titles, prefixes, suffixes, etc., but the fact is that most websites ignore gender minorities.
There is also the distinction between gender and sex, which websites often neglect (in some cases to the detriment of intersex individuals).
I would love to see either more websites that, like Facebook, offer treatment of gender as more than just a binary data value, or forgoe it altogether. Of course, gender is always going to bring up problems when attempting to translate both names and standard text.