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Which? Trans people aren't a protected class in the US.


You are mistaken. If it wasn't clear about what 'sex' meant in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it was made more clear a couple of months ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County


> Trans people aren't a protected class in the US.

Technically but not materially true, since gender identity discrimination, like other forms of conformance-to-sex-stereotype discrimination, has been found by the Supreme Court to be a form of sex discrimination.


>I will not use trickery in a demo to decieve others about the progress of a project

This is a good starting point. All those who've used dodgy marketing to convince investors that their machine learning is AI and so we're 'first generation of humans to endow computers with the ability to make decisions' have lent their words to a culture war with no basis in fact.


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