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+---
+title: "When Binary Code Won’t Accommodate Nonbinary People"
+date: 2019-10-31T17:00:26Z
+type: ["lens"]
+tags: ["discrimination", "gender", "systemic issues"]
+categories: ["Laura’s Lens"]
+body_classes: "lens"
+postURL: "https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/gender-binary-nonbinary-code-databases-values.html"
+publication: "Slate"
+writer: "Meredith Broussard"
+image: "image.jpg"
+---
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+>“This is not about math, but about human social values being superimposed on a mathematical system. The question becomes: Whose values are encoded in the system?”
+>
+> …
+>
+>“That trans and gender nonconforming people are excluded from or subjugated to information systems is a phenomenon [Anna Lauren Hoffmann] labels data violence, or ‘Harm inflicted on trans and gender nonconforming people not only by government-run systems, but also the information systems that permeate our everyday social lives.’”