Yeah, of course.
It’s fashionable, actually.
That’s right.
Not at all.
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No, there is no famous example, but it used to be that Audrey, Aubrey are both gender neutral or male‑ish names a few hundred years ago. I checked before choosing my name.
Yes, you can check that.
Before Audrey Hepburn it’s a neutral name, and a few centuries before it’s a male name.
It used to be a male name, before Audrey Hepburn.
Yeah, he is OK with it. Also, I never really liked this idea of a chosen people kind of thinking. There’s a lot of cultures with this chosen people kind of thinking, some major, some minor. The dynasty lineage is one of those chosen people things. As a practitioner of ...
Not at all. I checked my new name with him. If hadn’t agree, I wouldn’t have used as well.
The other thing is that it’s not so traditional Chinese. I never really liked this, what they call 法統, the traditional lineage. They’re from the Han dynasty, all the way to the Republic of China, which was the culture my father was brought in. He invested a lot of his ...
Long Feng, when we say Long Feng, Feng means female. When we say Fenghuang it means male, because Feng is a male bird in the Fenghuang pair, but when we say Long Feng, Feng always means female. It’s a transgender word. It’s the most transgender word I can find in ...
Phoenix is a pan‑gender word in the Chinese language. In 龍鳳 it’s female, and 鳳凰, it’s male. It’s a traditionally...
First of all, Feng...
Tang Feng, which is like Phoenix.
Original name? My original name is Tang Zonghan, traditionally meaning the Tang dynasty inherited the Han dynasty. It’s a extremely traditional Chinese name.
Yeah, but that’s the only document that was changed.
No, not at all. I changed my name. That’s for sure.
No.
No, not at all.
I wasn’t socialized in a gendered manner. By adolescence I would already have quit school actually and joined my first startup. In that startup there was LGBTQ people in the five co‑founders. It’s not considered something that a gender role should have anything to do with our startup. That’s the ...
Yeah, my parents didn’t gender discipline me, so I never really felt like I should behave as a boy or girl. Around adolescence my main counterparts are all bulletin board system friends and people on the Internet where gender really means nothing.
Long as I was born, something like that.
I understand people, I recognize people by their values, also, not by their genders, or roles, or whatever. According to the golden, or even the silver, rule. I expect the same in return.
A lot. It means that I do whatever I think is OK to do, not thinking whether it’s a female thing or a male thing. That’s it.
In the simple way, it’s...
Unrestricted by pronouns. My performance is not gender informed. That’s a technical way to say it. The Judith Butler way to say it.
Yeah. It’s unrestricted by pronouns, basically.
No, both.
People are generally fine with it.
It’s common in the hacking scene, actually.
Sure, of course.
It’s a input field. I can write anything, and it’s next to the party field.
On the registration document. As a minister I have to register my personal details.
I wrote "none" at the gender field, and also at the political party field. They’re close to each other.
We don’t have a gender field on the passport.
2005. Some editors in Wikipedia picked up on it a few months afterwards, and then the rest of these citations.
Of course we’ve never met face to face, or sometimes over the phone, there’s a lot of confusion. I was explaining that I’m this transgender who is OK with whatever gender pronouns that people refer me to, and I’m living as a woman for a while, but it’s not a ...
All I did was that I wrote a blog post that said Runtime Typecasting, which is an inside joke to programming language geeks, that explained that there are some people in Europe know me as a woman and some people in Asia know me as a man.
The thing with Wikipedia is that I cannot edit it myself, the parts that are wrong. No, I didn’t do that. I didn’t do anything like that.
Wikipedia probably.
Where did you read that?
Yeah, I did. It’s very well known here.
I filled in none as the gender when I was sworn in.
Minus six minutes.
There’s MediaTek. No, I don’t think any of them are particularly known. Of course, they would be known by their German counterparts, anyone working in the IT industry. But in the general population, no, I don’t think any of them are household brands. We’re looking at this very understated part ...
