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Not really an example for transphobia, but rejecting gender-neutral language in documentation is a red flag.
This was resolved and the PR was merged
No, it wasn't. You might say that the issue was sidestepped, because it says "it", rather than "they", now.
I guess it was an overreaction by mastodon, though. Even if I understand the initial criticism.
'It' is gender neutral so it was resolved
You claimed the PR was merged.
A PR fixing all those issues was merged.
They used "they" when referring to a person, and "it" when referring to a process (the author used "he" when referring to a process calling another process, when he should have used "it.")
But not the PR.
Does it matter? It's the same outcome either way
It doesn't really address the core of the issue. Also: you said something wrong and ri corrected you, while acknowledging that the text was gender neutral now. What's the big deal?