Seriously though, I agree with the other comment about having Codes of Conduct. Don't programmers know what constitutes acceptable behavior? (Apart from stuff like not showering).
Seriously though, great comment.
It's actually a lot more prevalent in the population than some people realise. It's not something that was made up. For example, odds are, you almost certainly know a few people who are intersex one way or another, but they might not share this information freely with you.
Simply not having XX nor XY chromosomes happens about in one in every 1666 people. Surely you have met at least two thousand people in your life.
That's a disease, not a gender. What makes people with such a disease think they are special? Moreover, why should I care about this particular disease when there are much worse?
Honestly, everyone has quirks, not everyone makes them the core of their identity.
Edit: apparently someone here is offended by my comments and instantly downvoting them. Pretty sad, and doesn't help your cause. If censorship is the best strategy you can think of, then maybe your cause is total fucking bullshit.
Is being a man a quirk or a disease of yours or in the core of your identity?
"Really common" is people bullshitting. Most of this stuff is in their heads. I don't know about adrenal hyperplasia but certainly you don't need to be a liberal to have it? So why do only liberals want preferential treatment?
Sorry, all this crap is just identity politics... it's not based in reality at all.
But getting back to the topic on hand, I remember reading about TFS and I thought wow this is really ambitious I wonder who will have the time to actually develop it. Evidently the author of said spec agreed. I do appreciate perfectionist programmers as I definitely tend towards hacking away to solve problems even if I chip the paint so to speak.
I'm sorry, but made-up genders simply do not find their way into my model of the world. I never encounter such people in real life (hopefully they've all been siphoned off to Portland by now) and I simply do not have the time or the energy to so much as blink at such whacko ideas, much less accommodate the crazies by building special bathrooms just for them and their delusions. So sorry, but I will never "accept" this into any personal framework and will treat people like normal people with real genders, not made-up ones.