Gender Blinder
An open source browser extension to remove implicit gender from English language web pages.
Features
- Replaces gendered words on web pages.
- Choose between 8 sets of personal pronouns.
- Optionally marks substitutions.
- On / Off switch, with page reload button.
Known limitations
- Due to the ambiguous nature of language, removing gender from natural English cannot easily be done with 100% accuracy.
- Making gender specific words non-gender-specific is a lossy operation; information about the genders of characters being described is lost. This can make text more ambiguous.
- There is not a one-to-one mapping between English pronouns of different genders, so sometimes there are two possible substitutions i.e. "his" -> "her" OR "his" -> "hers".
- Not all gender specific words are covered.
- Sometimes words unrelated to gender get changed by accident. For example they may have a similar/identical spelling to a gender-specific word.
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(Un)License
This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain. Please see the UNLICENSE.txt file for details.