gendrendr: For Gender Enders

#' @importFrom stats setNames

#' @title Ending Gender Application
#'
#' @description This package contains a simple set of functions designed to
#'  highlight the inaccuracy and violence of assigning genders to others.
#'  The premise is as follows: 
#'  \enumerate{
#'    \item the assignment of gender to another in the absence of personal 
#'    confirmation is an act of violence that perpetuates hierarchical 
#'    systems of oppression and can be personally traumatizing; 
#'    \item the assumption of the correctness of gender assigned at birth 
#'    reinforces archaic medical views and state-sanctioned violence; 
#'    \item gender is a construct that varies over space, time, culture, 
#'    and ethnicity, and assuming that data from one context apply to another
#'    reinforces gendered imperialist violence and perpetuates cultural 
#'    stereotypes; 
#'    \item of specific relevance is the fact that gender is not a binary, 
#'    and use of data that assume a gender binary reinforces that
#'    norm, which does violence to individuals who are non-binary and erases 
#'    cultures that embrace a diversity of genders; 
#'    \item gender cannot be accurately inferred from names, presentations,
#'    pronouns or other such factors, and assuming it can and that the 
#'    consequences of any failure are trivial speaks to the devaluation of 
#'    transgender, non-binary, and gender-non-conforming life and individuals
#'    ...and this fact is not absolved by using large data sets and fancy 
#'    statistics; 
#'    \item if it is important for some reason to know what someone's gender 
#'    is, the only way to accurately and definitively obtain that information 
#'    is from that person; and 
#'    \item gender and sex are both imperfect constructs and drawing 
#'    distinctions between them creates unnecessary hierarchies--sex is as 
#'    problematic (if not moreso) a concept than gender and holding it in any 
#'    higher regard elevates out-dated medicalized views and perpetuates 
#'    systematic oppressions. 
#'  }
#' 
#' @name gendrendr
#'
#' @docType package
#'
#' @keywords package
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