@spacerog that’s such a bullshit & people-hostile policy 😠😡🤬 I’d say I expect people running a ̶s̶e̶c̶u̶r̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶ vendor conference to do better but, well, 😩
and as well as being actively hostile to trans, nonbinary, & gender-nonconforming folks, it will almost certainly break their own registration system if pursued with purity^ (patio11 has entered the chat, etc.)
^ for those playing along at home, see Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ and the Falsehoods programmers believe in #AwesomeList https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
@spacerog yup, every infosec & adjacent conf that I’ve been to at the bare minimum has an option for some version of “preferred name” to be printed on the badge
I would also argue that unless all conf rego staff have been quite well trained in verifying many many forms of government ID then what they’re really doing is just security theatre / legal liability insurance theatre when it comes to countering physical threats
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