Designed by Arizona State University student Josh Tint, Discover Me allows users to try out different pronouns and names in a safe, personal environment as they delve into their own ideas of personal identity.
The rights of LGBTQ, specifically trans and gender-diverse people, are under attack, and many of those fights are playing out in the same places they once saw as safe and inclusive. From the overarching vagaries of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill to hyperfocused legislation aimed at access to gender-affirming healthcare, the unfounded pushback endangers these populations physically, mentally and emotionally.
Tint created the app after starting his own gender journey and finding little aid during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic. “Many resources helped explain what different gender identities were, but largely in abstraction or in an academic way that was hard to relate to my personal experiences,” Tint told Paste. “I found myself just scribbling little notes to myself using different names and pronouns to see if they sounded authentic to me.
That doesn’t mean that development isn’t without its hiccups, though. The mechanisms powering the language-based app still have some trouble conjugating sentences using they/them pronouns as those are commonly used as a plural despite their use as singular pronouns dates back centuries. The inclusion of neopronouns also caused some difficulties, but Tint remains committed to working on those issues and making Discover Me as affirming as possible.
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