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ICYMI:
Transgender Awareness doesn't end with a week.
THE TROUBLE WITH GENDER BINARY ALGORITHMS for FACIAL RECOGNITION & AI
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#TransAwarenessWeek #tdor2021
AI systems are trained to think like those who designed them — typically with a binary, cisnormative conception of gender.
So-called Automated Gender Recognition (AGR) — Tech that attempts to automatically classify people as either male or female - a binary conception of gender. "The input is either a picture, video, or social media post of someone.

towardsdatascience.com/towards-trans-…
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FORTY SEVEN

Forty-seven trans people have been violently killed so far in 2021. While this number represents an increasing trend, let's talk about what that number doesn't tell us.

#TDOR #tdor2021

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* These are violent crimes, meaning someone else took their lives. This number does not reflect those that took their own lives as a result of unmanageable pressures of discrimination, abandonment, homelessness, forced conversion therapy, etc.

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* This number only includes those situations where Law Enforcement documents the victim as transgender. It does not include those killed where police and families hid the gender identity of the victim. This is a common occurrence and skews the numbers heavily.

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