Facebook Proudly Announces 50 New Profile Choices For Gender Identity

Before It’s News – by Josey Wales

Below you will find a list of gender options available from Facebook for FB users in the U.S.

The number one social media site, Facebook Inc, is now allowing users of its online social network identify themselves as a gender other than male and female.

Facebook announced on Thursday, the user profile for Facebook members in the United States now includes a customizable category among the gender types that users have the option to select from.     

For people who select that option, they can select up to 50 gender identifications, including “transgender,” “intersex” and “fluid.”

Facebook said it worked with a leading group of gay and transgender advocacy organizations to come up with the wide selection of identity options.

Until today, Facebook’s 1.23 billion users could only select male or female for their genders type, which Facebook requires users to state in their profiles. Users of rival Google Inc’s Google+ social network already had an “other” option for their gender choices.

Facebook said one of the options users will have is that they can control the audience who can view a custom choice, noting the challenges that some people may face in publicly sharing their gender identity.

Facebook members will also have the option to choose the personal pronoun to which they are referred publicly. A message on Facebook might now invite a user’s friend to write a birthday message on “their” wall, instead of “his” or “her” wall.

“We want you to feel comfortable being your true, authentic self,” Facebook said.

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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

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