[TaizWeb]

>tell data scientist their poll is flawed because it only includes "transgender" instead of "transgender female" and that makes them transphobic. >data scientist is upset and tells management. >management tells you to stop being a jerk. >proceed to be toxic in all your PRs and on Slack. >management tells you to stop being a jerk. >they put you under review. >start getting emotional and say you have emotional trauma. >management tells you to stop trying to manipulate them with your sob story. >start making bad code for weeks. >get fired. >write a blog post attacking them. >call people who work at github *holes on their twitters. and she thinks this was all an attack on her because of her gender? hell, they hired her for that.

[spraak]

Besides all that drama, being sensitive to gender is important and awesome.

[TaizWeb]

yes, we should be sensitive to it, but let's say this story came from a straight white man. if you were github, would you want someone toxic working for you? someone who's accused someone of being transphobic over a form they made? someone who's toxic in Slack with all the other members? someone who starts writing bad code (failing at their own job)? no, you wouldn't. just because someone's a minority doesn't give them the right to be treated above others. it's a little something called equality.

[fleetingmoments]

I don't know, it sounded like improving GH's diversity/inclusivity was exactly the reason she was hired and so that must have seemed like an obvious place where she could contribute. And she didn't call the data scientist transphobic or made any personal remarks, she just corrected her. I'm not saying I agree with everything she did, but based on that incident I'd say the data scientist was the one who handled it poorly.

[TaizWeb]

we don't know the exact phrasing, but considering she "called the data scientist out on her transphobic survey" does imply she indirectly insulted the data scientist

[zimpenfish]

Where does it mention transphobic?

> "'Transgender' is not a gender. Transgender people may be male, female, gender queer, non-binary... If you want to know if a survey respondent is transgender, you need to explicitly ask that question."