Facebook adds 50 new gender options

[dudeman162]

I'm cis male straight five-spirited heteroqueer astronaut.

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[DestroyerOfBlocks]

is autism a gender

[Reficul]

so now you're a native american transgender

uh
no

i couldve sworn that being gay in native american cultures that actually accepted homoloveuality was referred to as being two spirited because you can be a man and love a man like a woman and vice versa

or am i wrong

[Nikolan]

uh
no

i couldve sworn that being gay in native american cultures that actually accepted homoloveuality was referred to as being two spirited because you can be a man and love a man like a woman and vice versa

or am i wrong

well

from what i read it was an umbrella term in native american culture, and it takes place of a lot of gender roles so ???? i think what you said is closer to being correct

[Reficul]

well

from what i read it was an umbrella term in native american culture, and it takes place of a lot of gender roles so ???? i think what you said is closer to being correct

okay


everyone
from now on

i demand to be called reficul
the two spirited dragon

[Night Fox]

okay, reficul the half spirited lizard

[Headcrab Zombie]

we'e entitled to our own opinion.

https://theconversation.com/no-youre-not-entitled-to-your-opinion-9978
I think everyone should read this link.
All I see is a bunch of kids passing off their stuff claims about groups not existing as "opinions" that go against established psychological/sociological findings made by experts and shown in many reliable sources.
The human body is nothing but a balance of chemicals. Why is it illogical to assume that one of these chemicals (specifically hormones) could go wrong, and someone could grow different mentally than they did physically?




Honestly though I think 50 is in that range of "too specific and too general" if that makes sense.
Like, everything in that list of 50 (I'm assuming, I haven't actually seen the list) could probably be grouped up into categories of very similiar things. But when you split it more, people will want it split even more
I'm not sure how many possibilities their could even be.

[Cool Boi]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/14/facebook-gender-identity-56-transgender-cis?CMP=twt_gu
It gets worse

[Headcrab Zombie]

I found a list of them. Half of them are just variations of other things, such as "transgender male" and "trans male", "cis male" and "cisgender male", "mtf" and "male to female", etc. So really it's not as much as they say.

[crunk²]

shouldn't this thread be locked by now

[DrenDran]

it doesn't matter what they are to you though

In that case, the two genders are male and female.
If you disagree:

it doesn't matter what they are to you though

[Dusty12]

I found a list of them. Half of them are just variations of other things, such as "transgender male" and "trans male", "cis male" and "cisgender male", "mtf" and "male to female", etc. So really it's not as much as they say.

All of those are horribly redundant. I don't see the motive behind such an unnecessary change beyond targeted advertising, really. Kind of stupid now that I think about it - I have plenty of trans friends and none of them identify themselves as 'transmen' or 'transwomen' privately or publicly, only as men and women.

People 'outside' the 'gender binary' are a completely other weird issue.

[Biostorm]

is autism a gender

No Patrick, Autism isn't a gender. -_-

Mental handicapation isn't a gender either.

[Night Fox]

In that case, the two genders are male and female.
If you disagree:

no that's stupid. it doesn't matter what you think because it isn't opinion

People 'outside' the 'gender binary' are a completely other weird issue.

I don't understand people like you saying stuff like this
I mean you wouldn't like it if someone said the fact that you're trans is weird right? so what is it that makes you think it's okay for you to call other people weird for something so similar?
I'm cisgendered and I wouldn't say something like that even if I did think it was weird

[Dodger]

Idk, being gay (or any significant deviation from hetero) doesn't make the most sense from an evolutionary perspective, it just seems to be an abnormal behavior that doesn't suit biological survival much