Rebecca Gulotta
2025
Amplifying Trans and Nonbinary Voices: A Community-Centred Harm Taxonomy for LLMs
Eddie L. Ungless
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Sunipa Dev
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Cynthia L. Bennett
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Rebecca Gulotta
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Jasmijn Bastings
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Remi Denton
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
We explore large language model (LLM) responses that may negatively impact the transgender and nonbinary (TGNB) community and introduce the Transing Transformers Toolkit, T3, which provides resources for identifying such harmful response behaviors. The heart of T3 is a community-centred taxonomy of harms, developed in collaboration with the TGNB community, which we complement with, amongst other guidance, suggested heuristics for evaluation. To develop the taxonomy, we adopted a multi-method approach that included surveys and focus groups with community experts. The contribution highlights the importance of community-centred approaches in mitigating harm, and outlines pathways for LLM developers to improve how their models handle TGNB-related topics.