New app for trans* people
Source: http://gscene.com/news/new-app-for-trans-people/
Author: Paul Gustafson
Posted: Jan 27th, 2015

"AN AMERICAN technologist based in Columbus, Ohio is developing a cutting edge, interactive mobile app which he hopes will help people understand and learn about transgender and gender non-conforming people and issues.

Brad Henry has spent the last 12 months working on Transfigure8, an 'artificial intelligent transgender friend application' which is designed to mimic human conversational interactions. The application provides users with the experience of speaking to a transgender person through an interactive '3D agent'."
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Uhhh...most people who need to be educated are not going to think "Oh I know, there's an app for this."

Yeah, I make Apps, but I am not feeling it... 

I will have to check it out before I can really comment, this makes me want to ask Siri is she is transgendered.

-Jade

Depending on what the app turns out like I can see some uses for it. Maybe something that people that want to find out more when a friend or colleague or whatever has just come out to them but there's questions they feel too awkward to ask. I worry that it'll be a bit generalised.

The app wasn't found in google playstore (for Android), but there is a link to a video showing the experience.

Brad Henry (the app designer) also has a YouTube channel under his name.

I'd say it should be pretty good, given that a person who looks for it will have been asking questions about TS/TG people, but either can't find any to ask, or the ones s/he does find are reluctant to talk.

This sounds absolutely ridiculous. Who is going to download this app? What transphobe will download this app? Who is the target audience?

Quote from: Kaylee2140 on February 22, 2015, 03:13:56 AM
This sounds absolutely ridiculous. Who is going to download this app? What transphobe will download this app? Who is the target audience?

The target audience is (assumably) friends, family and peers of transgender people who maybe find it awkward approaching someone with questions, or if the transgender person isn't open to talk. Also possibly good for medical experts who've never dealt.with a transgender person before, and organizations and service providers looking to learn more.

I think it's a very sweet idea and their hearts are in the right place, but I just hope this doesn't royally backfire.  I can picture haters using this as hard proof of how we are "brainwashing" children to accept something that isn't the norm and that we have an "agenda".

But Jill we do have an agenda, it's called getting on with our lives, sorry I couldn't resist that 

Quote from: Jayne on February 26, 2015, 06:29:20 PM
But Jill we do have an agenda, it's called getting on with our lives, sorry I couldn't resist that 

Silly, isn't it?  There's a Jill-ism for that: transgenda.

And they think we're trying to recruit their children into our sinful lifestyle or something like that.  *facepalm*

Quote from: Jill F on February 26, 2015, 07:00:04 PM
Silly, isn't it?  There's a Jill-ism for that: transgenda.

And they think we're trying to recruit their children into our sinful lifestyle or something like that.  *facepalm*

If I did a facepalm every time I heard about our sinister agenda I'd have a flat face

This makes me think of people who find a gay "friend" so they can ask them to use their superpower - the "gay-dar" - to root out the unsuspecting, closeted gay folks.

It'll either backfire or the friendship will fizzle.