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In a way I find it offensive that this service effectively denies my biological masculinity, which I consider to be an essential and distinguishing part of my identity. However, I'll not bother making a fuss because I realise there are far more important things in life: this being the difference between me and the virtue-signalling intellectual and moral pygmies in charge of ridiculous decisions like this.

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>effectively denies my biological masculinity

How does it do that? All they are doing is no longer using perceived masculinity as a metric for determining whether you might be male or female.

>I'll not bother making a fuss

And yet here we are

A post on HN is a bit different to the mind-melting full-spectrum 'there's no such thing as men and women guyz!' etc. subversion efforts afoot.

> And yet here we are

A two sentence post on HN is "making a fuss"???

>In a way I find it offensive that this service effectively denies my biological masculinity

All it's saying is that it won't make gender classifications based on perceived masculinity/femininity.

Just because you can automatically classify certain features to some degree of accuracy doesn't mean you should. A company like Google also has an ethical obligation to think about how the technology will be used.

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