Twitter is incorrectly guessing the gender of trans users — and they aren't having it
Transgender Twitter users aren't here for the platform's gendered assumptions. And they sure aren't hesitating to make that known.
Here's the deal: Twitter released a new set of tools on May 17 which allow users to see and control the data advertisers use to target ads on the social media platform. While the move was a clear effort to increase transparency and trust between users and the social media machine, the actual data Twitter has collected is giving many users pause.
Notably, many trans and gender-nonconforming users are troubled that Twitter has been guessing the gender of users based on the gender most strongly associated with a user's "profile and activity." Read more...
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Twitter is incorrectly guessing the gender of trans users — and they aren't having it
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