Facebook to offer custom gender options

[Jazzy]

The social network Facebook has announced that its English language users will now be able to select a custom gender for their profile page.

As well as the options of "male" or "female", Facebook will offer about fifty different terms people can use to identify their gender, such as androgynous, bi-gender or transsexual.

Victoria Sill reports.

I had no idea there were fifty different gender terms.

Did you?

Can anyone name all 50?

 

[fantanoice]

I just think it's good to hear about technology companies being more inclusive

 

[Evil Eye]

The more options the better!
I want an eye option

 

[DrLeftover]

The social network Facebook has announced that its English language users will now be able to select a custom gender for their profile page.

As well as the options of "male" or "female", Facebook will offer about fifty different terms people can use to identify their gender, such as androgynous, bi-gender or transsexual.

Victoria Sill reports.

I had no idea there were fifty different gender terms.

Did you?

Can anyone name all 50?

I think the "Glossary" will end up needing to be expanded.

Has anybody seen a REAL version of the list?

 

[Jazzy]

FACEBOOK'S NEW GENDER OPTIONS
Here is a list of new gender options Facebook is making available (for U.S. users only):
Agender
Androgyne
Androgynous
Bigender
Cis
Cis Female
Cis Male
Cis Man
Cis Woman
Cisgender
Cisgender Female
Cisgender Male
Cisgender Man
Cisgender Woman
Female to Male
FTM
Gender Fluid
Gender Nonconforming
Gender Questioning
Gender Variant
Genderqueer
Intersex
Male to Female
MTF
Neither
Neutrois
Non-binary
Other
Pangender
Trans
Trans Female
Trans Male
Trans Man
Trans Person
Trans*Female
Trans*Male
Trans*Man
Trans*Person
Trans*Woman
Transexual
Transexual Female
Transexual Male
Transexual Man
Transexual Person
Transexual Woman
Transgender Female
Transgender Person
Transmasculine
Two-spirit

 

[DrLeftover]

Oh, Jesus.

 

[Flurry]

Well.. There's something for ya o.0

 

[DrLeftover]

Maybe I'll go and pick "other" just to annoy their demographic people that will have to sift through this so they can target ads for their users.

After all, that has to be what this is about.

 

[Sinon]

So realistically, they're adding about 6, but using a ton of different words that mean the same thing. Wonderful.

I was hoping for a "kitten" gender, personally

 

[DrLeftover]

So realistically, they're adding about 6, but using a ton of different words that mean the same thing. Wonderful.

I was hoping for a "kitten" gender, personally

You should contact the ACLU and demand a class action lawsuit be started.

 

[Evil Eye]

After all, that has to be what this is about.

That and some good publicity. I doubt you'll be pissing any people off though, I'd be very surprised if it wasn't all automated.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Darn! I got fluid on my nonconforming gender

 

[Jazzy]

What the hell is a Two-spirit?

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

What the hell is a Two-spirit?

A two headed spirit from hell?

 

[DrLeftover]

Ah... a Definition is called for.

Two Spirit People, Two-Spirited Person

Native American concept of a person who has the indwelling spirit of two different aspects of existence, such as being both Male and Female (literally being a man-woman or a woman-man), or having the inner spirits of two different animals such as a deer and an eagle in the same body that was physically one or the other. In many native cultures, a baby that was born of mixed physical characteristics, or a Hermaphroditic (which see) was left to die in the wilderness as an evil omen and never spoke of again, being considered stillborn. This is in contrast to those that are physically of two different bodies in one in other cultures, such as the Nirwaan of the Hijra of Asia (see Hijra). In the majority of cases in pre-colonial America such individuals were considered 'two spirited' if they exhibited tendencies that belonged to the opposite physical sex in that culture. Such as a male child that enjoyed dancing the roles usually carried out by women during tribal ceremonies or a female child that hunted or pretended to be a warrior. These tendencies were usually ignored until the Child reached Puberty, at which time they would be tested, if found to be a composite of both, they would then be trained in the mystical traditions of the tribe or as a healer. Also see: Yin-Yang, Third Sex, Transgendered, Intersex, and similar ideas. The spellings with and without the hyphen are both used in academic works on the subject.

To some degree the concept of the niizh manidoowag was also used to explain Cross Dressing, Homosexuality, Effeminate men, and other traits among several of the First Nations of North America and other cultures, it should be mentioned here that some of these explanations smack of either white-washing (see Lie) or even Political Correctness as the topic is uncomfortable for many of these groups to discuss openly, some even deny the practice existed among them, and in a few cases, they're right! The term itself is Ojibwe, there are other native words for the same thing, some are even more unpronounceable by anybody who went to a state school in the US. But it is still better than the corrupted French word "berdache" which meant, essentially, Homosexual, because the early French explorers has no idea what they were talking about. For another example see: Ladyboy, Rae Rae, and related.