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facebook and it's gender options
Posted on 2/14/14 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 2/14/14 at 3:17 pm
damn who knew there were that many different gender options! Has anyone noticed any friends with the change to a gender other than male or female yet?
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Facebook goes beyond 'male' and 'female' with new gender options
(CNN) -- You don't have to be strictly a man or a woman on Facebook anymore.
In a nod to the "it's complicated" sexual identities of many of its users, the social network on Thursday added a third "custom" gender option for people's profiles. In addition to Male or Female, Facebook now lets U.S. users choose among some 50 additional options such as "transgender," "cisgender," "gender fluid," "intersex" and "neither."
Users also now have the ability to choose the pronoun they'd like to be referred to publicly: he/his, she/her, or the gender-neutral they/their.
"When you come to Facebook to connect with the people, causes, and organizations you care about, we want you to feel comfortable being your true, authentic self," Facebook said in a post on its Diversity page.
"An important part of this is the expression of gender, especially when it extends beyond the definitions of just 'male' or 'female,' " the post continued. "So today, we're proud to offer a new custom gender option to help you better express your own identity on Facebook."
Facebook said it worked with a group of leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy organizations to come up with the new gender categories.
"Facebook users from across the country have been asking for the ability to reflect their gender accurately, and today Facebook showed they have been listening," said Allison Palmer, a former GLAAD vice president, who worked on the project with Facebook.
To edit your gender status (or other personal information), Facebook offers these instructions:
Go to your Timeline (which we sometimes refer to as your profile).
Click Update Info at the bottom of your cover photo.
Click Edit in the top right of the section you'd like to change. (The new gender options are only accessible within an autocomplete drop-down menu, so you have to begin typing to see them appear.)
Enter your new info and click Save.
Among other new gender options identified on Facebook so far: Trans Female, Trans Male, Trans Person, Gender Variant, Gender Questioning, Bigender, Androgynous, Pangender and Transsexual.
Facebook also tweaked its privacy settings to let users control with whom they share their custom gender.
Reaction on social media Thursday was largely positive, although some people joked they would need a dictionary to look up many of the gender-identity terms.
The social network did not say Thursday when the new gender options might be available to users outside the U.S.
Posted on 2/14/14 at 3:31 pm to cleetus
sex is binary
gender is not
gender is not
Posted on 2/14/14 at 3:32 pm to cleetus
The pussification of America.
Posted on 2/14/14 at 3:34 pm to cleetus
Um, its pretty simple. You are either male or female.... unless you are Jamie Lee Curtis, and then you are just smokin hot as frick, whichever gender that falls under.
Posted on 2/14/14 at 3:35 pm to jcole4lsu
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sex is binary
gender is not
Which is fine, except when people want to self-identify gender and have that applied to a binary circumstance.
Posted on 2/14/14 at 3:36 pm to ThaKaptin
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Um, its pretty simple. You are either male or female.... unless you are Jamie Lee Curtis, and then you are just smokin hot as frick, whichever gender that falls under.
Whoa whoa whoa
Posted on 2/14/14 at 3:37 pm to Pettifogger
You knew she was without gender right?
Posted on 2/14/14 at 3:37 pm to Pettifogger
but that has nothing to do with picking a gender on facebook
Posted on 2/14/14 at 3:44 pm to ThaKaptin
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unless you are Jamie Lee Curtis, and then you are just smokin hot as frick, whichever gender that falls under.
even at 50+
i realize this pic was 2 years ago, but at 52 damn
and yes she would still get it at 54
and those were just stupid rumors from back in the day, right?
Posted on 2/14/14 at 3:45 pm to cleetus
I don't even know what most of those are. What the frick is a cisgender or a transgender?
Posted on 2/14/14 at 3:48 pm to cleetus
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and those were just stupid rumors from back in the day, right?
She actually does have a gene defect but she isnt really without gender as I jokingly said. She is technically female but her female organs dont work just like men actually have some female organs but they also dont work. She had to go through hormone therapy and stuff from what I understand.
Posted on 2/14/14 at 3:50 pm to ThaKaptin
ahhh...that's better than everyone just saying she was born a man lol
Posted on 2/14/14 at 3:53 pm to cleetus
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ahhh...that's better than everyone just saying she was born a man lol
Nah, she got a cooter, and id frick it.
Posted on 2/14/14 at 4:13 pm to ThaKaptin
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You knew she was without gender right?
Yeah but she's not hot man
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