Nice, so there IS some sort of clear standard based on science/biology to tell genders apart.

 

Nice, so there IS some sort of clear standard based on science/biology to tell genders apart.

Nice, so there IS some sort of clear standard based on science/biology to tell genders apart. Just tell us what it is, so people can never cheat the system.

How do leadership at the fair and Newsweek know people lied about their gender? It seems to be a lot of assumptions about individual’s gender. How do they know these individuals are “cis-men”, did they ask them? Is it possible that we have a similar issue in women’s sports?

 The fair promised next year to have “changes” and very swift “enforcement”, maybe next year the fair will be able to tell us “what is a women” and we can apply that world wide!

Direct Quotes:

An event billed as the largest gathering of women and nonbinary technologists in the world was recently dominated by men, causing uproar among attendees and leading to apologies from organizers.

But instead of catering to its intended audience that paid about $1,300 per ticket just to get in the doors, organizers soon realized that cisgender men had flooded the conference allegedly for their own personal gain.

"Simply put, some of you lied when you registered. And as evidenced by the stacks and stacks of resumes you're passing out, you did so because you thought you could come here and take space to try and get a job.

Men apparently took discounted academic tickets from women who sought them, as well as interview slots and recruiting opportunities—all things to which male attendees had "no right" to infringe based on who the event was for, White said.

Joanna Schwartz, a marketing professor at Georgia College & State University,

While she did not personally attend, she knew others who did and relayed their discontent with the conference.

"To be clear, these weren't nonbinary or trans women who are an extremely small part of the computing  eld and go to that space in [the] community. These were men who didn't respect that space. Given recent reverse discrimination cases, it could be that they felt entitled to not only enter but dominate that space."

how will you determine who qualifies as NB [nonbinary] and who doesn't? What specific characteristics will you use?

Next year, we will be much clearer about expectations and very swift in our enforcement.