Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Facebook adds 50 gender options for users: For those who can't make up their minds
American Thinker ^ | 02/14/2014 | Rick Moran

Posted on 02/14/2014 1:27:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Are you confused about your gender? You know, man, woman, trans, queer, neutral...and on and on.

Well, there's good news for you people who can't seem to make up your minds. Facebook is adding 50 options to identify what gender your are...or, rather, what you see yourself as...or maybe what you think is hip.

From Associated Press:

"With a click of a cursor, Jay Brown in Cheverly, Md., went from Male to Trans Male. A few states away, Debon Garrigues of Asheville, N.C., switched from Male to Neutral. In San Francisco, Marilyn Roxie, formerly Female, chose three: Androgynous, Transgender and Genderqueer.

Across the country Thursday, news swept through the transgender community that social media giant Facebook had added a customizable option with about 50 different terms people can use to identify their gender as well as three preferred pronoun choices: him, her or them. And one after another, they made their changes in a quiet revolution of sorts.

"For me, this is about much more than a button on a monitor," Garrigues said. "This encourages people to think outside the binary spectrum. It means I don't have to try to fit in the wrong boxes."

For many others, the change went unnoticed - or too far. "Of course Facebook is entitled to manage its wildly popular site as it sees fit, but here is the bottom line: It's impossible to deny the biological reality that humanity is divided into two halves - male and female," said Jeff Johnston, an issues analyst for Focus on the Family, an influential national religious organization based in Colorado Springs, Colo. "Those petitioning for the change insist that there are an infinite number of genders, but just saying it doesn't make it so. "

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: corporateliberalism; culturewar; facebook; gender; homosexualagenda; identitypolitics; metrosexuals; selfidentify; sexpositiveagenda; towerofbabel
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-56 next last

1 posted on 02/14/2014 1:27:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

I hear one of the options is “Helen Thomas”.


2 posted on 02/14/2014 1:28:17 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Opinionated Blowhard

Don’t invoke that name! You know what happens when you write that name!


3 posted on 02/14/2014 1:29:01 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
I thought there were just inie and outie.

-PJ

4 posted on 02/14/2014 1:30:06 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Army Air Corps
Don’t invoke that name! You know what happens when you write that name!

Doesn't someone have to say it three times, like Bettlejuice?

5 posted on 02/14/2014 1:30:46 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
In San Francisco, Marilyn Roxie, formerly Female, chose three: Androgynous, Transgender and Genderqueer.

What the hell is Genderqueer?
6 posted on 02/14/2014 1:31:43 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Veggie Todd
No, it only takes one invocation for someone to post an eye scorching giant pic of her.

7 posted on 02/14/2014 1:33:49 PM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

This country is going down the toilet isn’t it?
Is there an option for those who are half dog, half human


8 posted on 02/14/2014 1:34:52 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Veggie Todd

9 posted on 02/14/2014 1:35:06 PM PST by EEGator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Here’s a suggestion. How about just three?
Male
Female
WTF


10 posted on 02/14/2014 1:35:11 PM PST by al baby (Hi MomÂ… I was refereeing to Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Do they have “Male straight who can’t stand liberal marxist slimebags who are destroying this country with their BS” sex?


11 posted on 02/14/2014 1:35:30 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sarah Barracuda
Is there an option for those who are half dog, half human

I'm not sure. But there's got to be an option for Centaurs...


12 posted on 02/14/2014 1:37:14 PM PST by SeekAndFind
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Political Junkie Too

Well, we live in a brave new world now. You can’t just go by what’s between the legs, to verify the sex of a person.

I am limited in my thinking, according to the liberals. If you have a binary view of sex and gender, you just aren’t aware of the wide world of gay lesbian and GOD KNOW WHATELSE. SEND ME TO RE EDUCATION CAMP RIGHT NOW.


13 posted on 02/14/2014 1:37:15 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego (we')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Hell in a handbasket.


14 posted on 02/14/2014 1:37:47 PM PST by bicyclerepair (TERM LIMITS .......... TERM LIMITS .......... TERM LIMITS)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: al baby
Gazintas and Gazoutas.

-PJ

15 posted on 02/14/2014 1:38:10 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Sarah Barracuda
Is there an option for those who are half dog, half human


16 posted on 02/14/2014 1:38:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Dilbert San Diego
Legs?!? I was talking about belly buttons! ;-)

-PJ

17 posted on 02/14/2014 1:39:39 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

LOL I knew someone would post this


18 posted on 02/14/2014 1:41:58 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

I always wondered how it would feel to have 4 legs and a tail


19 posted on 02/14/2014 1:42:25 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Political Junkie Too

Oh, belly buttons:....

Well, I guess this shows where my mind was, LOL.


20 posted on 02/14/2014 1:44:45 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego (we')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-56 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson