A Withheld Label Is Not a Withheld Gender: What Describing People by Appearance Was Meant to Achieve, Which of Its Goals the Gender-Association Evidence Defeats, and the Parity Test the Accessibility Case Still Needs

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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). A Withheld Label Is Not a Withheld Gender: What Describing People by Appearance Was Meant to Achieve, Which of Its Goals the Gender-Association Evidence Defeats, and the Parity Test the Accessibility Case Still Needs [Preprint]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23694633

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@misc{lor1502026,
  title        = {A Withheld Label Is Not a Withheld Gender: What Describing People by Appearance Was Meant to Achieve, Which of Its Goals the Gender-Association Evidence Defeats, and the Parity Test the Accessibility Case Still Needs},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23694633},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/preprints/150},
  keywords     = {gender bias, image description, accessibility, alt text, fairness through unawareness, proxy leakage, vision-language models, language models},
  note         = {LOR-00150}
}

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