Topic: Facebook Opens Up LGBTQ-Friendly Gender Identity And Pronoun Options

+Anonymous A — 12.5 years ago #32,621

Facebook has just updated to let users choose the gender pronoun they associate with. Aside from the usual “male” and “female” options, users can choose up to 10 different gender definitions to describe themselves out of more than 50 options, including “cisgender,” “transgender” and “intersex.”

Not only will this show up on the user’s About page, but it will show up in all other pronouns on the site that refer to that user. This way, users will not only show up as he/him and she/her, but some may show up with the neutral they/their. So instead of getting a prompt that says “Write on Joey’s wall for HIS birthday,” the prompt will say “write on Joey’s wall for their birthday.”

You can change this by heading into the settings menu on your About page and clicking on the gender options. Alongside male and female, you’ll see an “Other” option. When “other” is selected, a list of 10 more nuanced options will appear.

“While to many this change may not mean much, for those it affects it means a great deal,” said Facebook publicist Will Hodges in an email. “We see this as one more way we can make Facebook a place where people can express their authentic identity.”

According to the email, Facebook worked closely with LGBT activist groups to compile the new list of gender-identity options. Facebook also added a new privacy option that lets users select who sees their gender:

“We also have added the ability for people to control the audience with whom they want to share their custom gender. We recognize that some people face challenges sharing their true gender identity with others, and this setting gives people the ability to express themselves in an authentic way.”

This lets users block certain less tolerant people from seeing their gender identity.

The update comes three years after Facebook added LGBTQ-friendly relationship statuses, including “in a civil union” and “in a domestic partnership.”

Facebook has shown a consistently progressive attitude towards gender and sexual preference over the year. The company won a Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Award for fair and accurate representation of the LGBTQ community and issues that impact it. To combat bigotry, it released stats noting that 70 percent of U.S. Facebook users have a friend who lists themselves as LGBTQ.

In 2013, over 700 employees and CEO Mark Zuckerberg marched in the San Francisco Pride parade. It’s even painted the Hack logo in its Menlo Park headquarters’ courtyard with rainbow colors.

Both through its service’s options and its company culture, Facebook is setting a positive example for how tech can promote tolerance. This could help it attract LGBTQ talent and users, and push other companies to build in compassion for all people.

+Triptych !IupsXZPnnU — 12.5 years ago, 3 minutes later[T] [B] #375,521

Cool.

+Anonymous C — 12.5 years ago, 2 minutes later, 5 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #375,522

Finally.

+Anonymous D — 12.5 years ago, 2 minutes later, 7 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #375,523

I hope they provide the data proving most trannies regret it and go back to normal.

·Anonymous C — 12.5 years ago, 36 minutes later, 44 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #375,538

@previous (D)
How long before you went back to normal?

+Anonymous E — 12.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 45 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #375,539

@previous (C)
I guess it depends on how long it takes for a penis to grow back.

(Edited 56 seconds later.)

+Catherine !TGirlYJKXM — 12.5 years ago, 24 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #375,556

Oh gee, thank you Facebook, because this was SO desperately needed.
/sarcasm

(Edited 49 seconds later.)

+Anonymous G — 12.5 years ago, 11 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #375,558

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
sexist

·Anonymous C — 12.5 years ago, 25 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #375,589

@375,539 (E)
Being 1/16th starfish I'd say about a year.

·Anonymous C — 12.5 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #375,592

@375,556 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
It's cisscum like you that give the rest of us enlightened aracial pandrogynous transmammalian otherkin types a bad name.

+Anonymous H — 12.5 years ago, 1 day later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,214

You know, I'm not even one to complain about "society falling apart" and so forth, but this is a little silly.

+Anonymous I — 12.5 years ago, 17 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,245

After reporting the story, host Elisabeth Hasselbeck threw to the network's Clayton Morris, who she called "the male." "No, I changed mine to intersex," Morris joked in response.

Tucker Carlson told "Fox and Friends" viewers that one of the new options was "intersex, whatever that is."

Fox News radio host Todd Starnes also sounded off on the changes in a Facebook post, writing, "What if you identify as a pine cone or a chicken or a weed whacker?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/14/fox-news-gender-facebook-options_n_4790243.html

Furries incoming.

·Catherine !TGirlYJKXM — 12.5 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,254

@previous (I)
> intersex, whatever that is
> Fox and Friends
Are you fucking kidding me?

@375,592 (C)
@375,558 (G)
Tumblr is this way -> Link

(Edited 1 minute later.)

+Anonymous J — 12.5 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,257

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
> Thinks Fox isn't just a Swiftean parody network.

So naïve. So gullible.

+Anonymous K — 12.5 years ago, 1 second later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,258

@376,254 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
Most people do not care what intersex means.

·Catherine !TGirlYJKXM — 12.5 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,264

@previous (K)
I figured more people would know what intersex means than transgender.
I am surprised Facebook even added a shitload of cis terms when a lot of everyday Joes and Janes probably do not know what Cis- means.

·Anonymous J — 12.5 years ago, 48 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,265

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
Hey, this is the Jew World Order you asked to be usurped in for. Stop complaining.

+Anonymous L — 12.5 years ago, 4 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,344

@OP GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

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+ducky — 12.5 years ago, 4 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,350

@376,214 (H)
this is beyond stupid

·ducky — 12.5 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,351

what is this cis why cant you just be a female and male. im just not gonna call myself a cystgirl

·ducky — 12.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,352

the jews have weird and very detailed plans about the GAYS!!!!!

+Syntax — 12.5 years ago, 3 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,383

@376,264 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
I needed a review of wot intersex really means so of course I hit Wiki

Intersex, in humans and other animals, is a variation in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, or genitals that do not allow an individual to be distinctly identified as male or female. Such variation may involve genital ambiguity, and combinations of chromosomal genotype and sexual phenotype other than XY-male and XX-female. Intersex infants with ambiguous outer genitalia may be surgically 'corrected' to more easily fit into a socially accepted sex category.

Then on page found this

"Phall-o-Meter

The Phall-o-meter, described by Anne Fausto-Sterling in Sexing the Body, is a metric scale. It enables assessment of acceptable phallus or clitoris measurements for boys and girls. For a girl, a medically acceptable clitoris can be no bigger than one centimeter = 0.393701 Inch. For a boy, an acceptable penis size must be between 2.5 centimeters = 0.984252 Inches and 4.5 centimeters = 1.77165 Inches. The range between one and 2.5 is unacceptable in either sex. Fausto-Sterling states

+Negi Springfield !aeNZeP7XP2 — 12.5 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,385

@previous (Syntax )

+Anonymous P — 12.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,386

@previous (Negi Springfield !aeNZeP7XP2)
Negi ends up on ugly female.

+Anonymous Q — 12.5 years ago, 17 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,388

@376,351 (ducky )
It's like you identifying as a girl and not a woman.

·a duck — 12.5 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,390

@previous (Q)
wut lol

·Anonymous P — 12.5 years ago, 9 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,391

@previous (a duck )
You related to b duck?

·a duck — 12.5 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,392

@previous (P)
lol

+Nautphagina !MLHqI35Srs — 12.5 years ago, 58 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,402

@376,352 (ducky )
Yes Ducky, we do, and we intend to be very instrumental in that movement.

·a duck — 12.5 years ago, 41 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,422

@previous (Nautphagina !MLHqI35Srs)
you joined the jews now

·Anonymous Q — 12.5 years ago, 57 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,446

@previous (a duck )
He must have had another 3-day trip, and whilst frolicking through the hills discovered his Semitic side. So sweet.

·Nautphagina !MLHqI35Srs — 12.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,448

@previous (Q)
> snide, adolescent, shemale quips are all I have

·Anonymous Q — 12.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,449

@376,402 (Nautphagina !MLHqI35Srs)

> Yes Ducky, we do, and we intend to be very instrumental in that movement.

@previous (Nautphagina !MLHqI35Srs)

> >snide, adolescent, shemale quips are all I have

·Nautphagina !MLHqI35Srs — 12.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,451

@previous (Q)
Whilst that was a joke, you were seriously micro-venting.

·Anonymous Q — 12.5 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,456

@previous (Nautphagina !MLHqI35Srs)

> Whilst that was a joke, you were seriously micro-venting

> > >snide, adolescent, shemale quips are all I have

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·Anonymous J — 12.5 years ago, 19 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,459

@previous (Q)
Nice stimming routine there. I can see Autphag's been a positive role model in your life.

·Anonymous C — 12.5 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,460

@376,254 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
Fug off, cissyboi.

·Anonymous Q — 12.5 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,470

@376,459 (J)
Thank you, I'm an attentive student.

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