Falsehoods Developers Have About Identity (PyCon AU 2016 Lightning Talk)

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1. Falsehoods Developers Have About Identity PyCon Australia, 2016
2. Hello, I’m Amber Brown (HawkOwl)
3. @hawkieowl atleastfornow.net
4. Identity
5. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" What is identity?
6. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" <poll>
7. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Name Gender Date of Birth Nationality
8. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Name Gender Date of Birth Nationality
9. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Married people Trans & NB individuals Divorced people Pseudonymous people
10. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" My name:
 Amber Hawkie Brown != my birth name
11. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" First name [Middle name] Last name
12. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Name
13. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity"
14. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity"
15. At common law an adult may assume any surname by using such name and becoming known by it. A surname is not a matter of law but a matter of repute … The law of this country allows any person to assume and use any name, provided its use is not calculated to deceive and to inflict pecuniary loss.
16. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Name Gender Date of Birth Nationality
17. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Gender is not binary Gender is not constant
18. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Gender is not something you should care about
19. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Pronouns != Gender
20. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Sex != Gender
21. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Name Gender Date of Birth Nationality
22. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" It can't change, right?
23. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" lol, clerical errors
24. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" lol, historical timezone changes
25. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Name Gender Date of Birth Nationality
26. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Countries merging Countries splitting Countries changing hands
27. What does your application do wrong?
28. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Django does names wrong
29. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Facebook does names VERY wrong ...but genders sort of right
30. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Every Australian form does marriages wrong
31. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" The only way to fix this is to have a diverse developer base
32. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Don't think you know. You don't know.
33. The Consequences
34. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Denying a person their identity is denying them their humanity
35. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Excluded Marginalised Upset
36. @hawkieowl "Falsehoods Programmers Have About Identity" Don't make assumptions.