Stack Overflow's New Code of Conduct
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It references https://archive.ph/wQ5vk "Harmful political content policy", which includes:
"We do not allow discriminatory content towards a person’s ... gender identity and expression"
Sex is not listed. Interpretations of this that do not assume malice/insanity on the part of the authors:
A) By "gender identity", they must mean sex.
B) They just forgot. Doubt this though because feedback on drafts of the CoC pointed this out.
The world has genuine incompetence in spades, and one should never assume malice, but I would guess that this is deliberate shenanigans.
If by "gender identity", they don't mean sex, then officially, sexism is permitted on stack overflow. Presumably they'd just say it was discrimination on the basis of "gender identity" though. (whatever that actually means)