Gender Blinder

This extension attempts to suppress implicit gender identity in the pages you visit.

What is Gender Blinder?

Gender Blinder is an open source browser extension designed to remove implicit gender from English language web pages. It aims to make text more gender-neutral, although there are limitations due to the ambiguous nature of language. The extension alters gender-specific words and pronouns, but it may also inadvertently modify unrelated words. Visit the GitHub page for the source code.

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By: genderblinder

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Users: 118 ▲ 2

Rating: 2.88 (8)

Version: 1.4 (Last updated: 2017-11-20)

Creation date: 2017-11-20

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

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Size: 15.40K

Email: ge*****@gmail.com

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# 67716 ▲ 9

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#1400 in Accessibility ▼ 2

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Gender Blinder

An open source browser extension to remove implicit gender from English language web pages.

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.

Source Code: https://github.com/peterwestmacott/genderblinder

User reviews

Its pretty good though it doesn't work sometimes

Your trashcan ’t, 2022-12-10

Useless. There are 2 genders and it makes no sense to try to hide it.

Charlie Murphy, 2021-10-29

It works enough for now. Have not had a problem with it yet. If I do I will get back to you on that. It needs some improvement, but nothing is perfect so I will not hold it's lack of flawlessness against it.