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Discussion on: Have you ever felt personally overlooked or targeted by technology?

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Madison Swain-Bowden

The deadnaming issue is a huge one for sure. I recently got deadnamed in the invite email for a Diversity and Inclusion training 😬
One thing I continue to be surprised about in technology is what things you can change and what you can't. I can't change the email address I have with Google, but I can change my name. In our company's HR/Payroll software I could change on a whim my race/ethnicity, but I was locked out of changing my gender.
It just reminds me of this wonderful article by Penelope Phippen: dev.to/penelope_zone/changing-your...

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Such a fantastic article. We were lucky to get to have Penelope on the episode of DevDiscuss linked above.

Thanks for sharing a bit of your story, Madison. This issue is so important and one I wasn't as familiar with before starting to work at DEV, which exposed me to the prevalence of deadnaming in tech and other identity-related flaws/discrimination.