[Carriage Hill]

Farcebook’s list of 58 “genders” (I don’t even know what the hell 93% of the following crap means...):

Agender
Androgyne
Androgynous
Bigender
Cis
Cisgender
Cis Female
Cis Male
Cis Man
Cis Woman
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*
Trans Female
Trans* Female
Trans Male
Trans* Male
Trans Man
Trans* Man
Trans Person
Trans* Person
Trans Woman
Trans* Woman
Transfeminine
Transgender
Transgender Female
Transgender Male
Transgender Man
Transgender Person
Transgender Woman
Transmasculine
Transsexual
Transsexual Female
Transsexual Male
Transsexual Man
Transsexual Person
Transsexual Woman
Two-Spirit

[Salman]

Even by their own standards, Facebook's list contains several synonyms. These are all included to cater to various differing and often incompatible queer subcultures.

For example a "cis woman" means really a woman and not a mentally ill man. Using that expression allows the identification without admitting the mentally ill man is not really a woman.

In fact every item on that list maps to some real world condition (many to one). It's just that the real world conditions aren't really genders.

For example "Two-Spirit" means an indigenous Canadian male homosexual. This one happens to be official Canadian government terminology though it may have some indigenous origin.

"Trans*" formations (that is with an asterisk) are designed to defeat text searches using regular expression parsers.

No one actually thinks there are precisely 58 genders. The conceit is there are an infinite number and they just include the most popular but also "other".

There is all manner of crazy in that list, not just gender identity crazy.

[nh1]

The facebook list doesn’t include Male and Female.