+1 :D
From: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshau...@gmail.com>
To: Eric Phetteplace <ephettepl...@cca.edu>
Cc: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 3:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Gender-neutral pronouns
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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