Up next: a panel on trans-inclusive academic publishing with @TessTanenbaum @irv_does_chem @r_speer and others on trans inclusive academic publishing practices. Thrilled to uplift and engage with this vital work!

Starting off with our panelists discussing transitioning and trying to remove their deadnames from their previously published academic work

"Getting publishers to adopt trans-inclusive policies is only the first step" @TheOfficialACM has adopted trans-inclusive policies, but has not adequately resourced them

"The need for these policies is clear to trans people, but we've had trouble getting other people to understand" Listen to our panelists and the trans community!!

Three harms from not changing deadnames on publications:
1. Can out trans people, especially worrying to those in areas hostile to trans people
2. Deadnaming retraumatizes trans people
3. Retraumatizing&work to fix policy compromises the ability to trans people to work

We're advocating for what cis men and many cis women already get: the ability to be credited for our work under our name

Good policy: the root is centering trans people. 1. Don't publish notice of name change. 2. give author full autonomy in correcting name--permission of coauthors not needed! 3. allow name change regardless of legality 4. prioritize most vulnerable trans people

5. propagate throughout all metadata 6. policy changes must be matched with educating IT/customer service on the back end--educate on gender affirming customer service!

Q: AI+NLP and trans inclusion--how does NLP interact with name&pronoun changes? A: NLP has been a primary antagonist in changing my name, esp @googlescholar_ . Needs to be a manual override/user input to NLP models!

"Algorithms seem to be considered to have supremacy over people at @Google" on how hard it was to get Google Scholar to recognize a name change

You can change your name on every site, but people all access them through @Google--until Google recognizes a change deadnaming keeps happening in search results. No manual way to change name in Google--opaque "update cycles" in propagating name changes

Onus to fix algorithm should be on @Google not on lay trans people trying to change their names!

Concept of "Algorithmic Authority" pervasive impulse to give algorithms moral and objective authority

@eLifeSciences on their trans-inclusive name change policy: very easy to implement!

Ways publishers can improve: 1. create point of contact for trans people to reach out to ( @Google @arxiv ) 2. Publishers: don't be "neutral" in this: deadnames are like viruses, all people and systems with it need to work to contain and remove it

Don't let trans-inclusive policies rest on one person--next person may not be as friendly. Give trans people direct control.

Problem isn't on building consensus for policy need. Challenge is actually implementing and infrastructuring these policies--what does a publishing platform that allows for seamless name changes look like? Right now changes are very labor intensive.