[congoe]

You could have at least clicked on the LinkedIn link before assuming the author was a guy... https://www.linkedin.com/in/naomi-w-liu/

[tra3]

My bad, should’ve used “their”.

[implements]

Not everyone has a LinkedIn account, not everyone may know that “Naomi” is usually feminine, and the article run through a textual gender analyser does read as “masculine”.

Mis-stating gender might be careless when as you imply “their” is the always the safe bet, but it’s probably not enough to justify OP’s unduly critical response. He / she or they could have just replied with “I checked their LinkedIn and Naomi’s a girl, btw”.

[classified]

The name Naomi might have been a dead giveaway.

[PostOnce]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Uemura

This man has won the People's Honour Award for climbing the highest mountains on 5 continents and being the first man to reach the north pole solo.

So Naomi is not necessarily a dead giveaway, you guys really split hairs and raise hackles over just about nothing worthwhile. Mistaking someone's sex is not a massive deal.

I used to have on my team a guy named Joan (pronounced joe-an) who spoke really softly, so his potential new employers would call me for a reference asking about "she" and "Joan", I'd gently correct them so as not to embarass him on any phone interview in the future. Nobody needed to throw a fit over an honest mistake.

Coincidentally, that guy was the best programmer I ever employed.

Anyway, just one of many counterexamples to a non-issue.

[dandellion]

It can be a male name, here's a random example I found in Google: https://earth.stanford.edu/events/energy-seminar-naomi-hiros...