{"id":154,"date":"2015-07-04T23:24:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T15:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2015-11-07T13:47:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T05:47:02","slug":"facebook-now-has-50-genders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/04\/facebook-now-has-50-genders\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook now has 50 genders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t know how I missed this last year.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2014\/02\/13\/male-female-or-custom-facebook-announces-major-expansion-terms-to-identify\/<\/p>\n<p>Below is\u00a0a paste from that page. Note that originally\u00a0these terms were only available in the USA but they now\u00a0seem to be available here. Hooray!<\/p>\n<p>Any attempt to define these terms (and even &#8216;male&#8217; or &#8216;female&#8217;) is bound to be problematic. But if you are\u00a0wondering what a\u00a0cisgender person is, you probably ARE one. Most people on the planet are probably cisgender. That term could simply refer to a male-born or female-born person\u00a0with a gender identification as a &#8216;traditional&#8217; man or woman respectively, or someone who has no &#8216;gender issues.&#8217; You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p><b>Facebook&#8217;s new gender options<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of new gender options Facebook is making available:<\/p>\n<p>Agender<br \/>\nAndrogyne<br \/>\nAndrogynous<br \/>\nBigender<br \/>\nCis<br \/>\nCis Female<br \/>\nCis Male<br \/>\nCis Man<br \/>\nCis Woman<br \/>\nCisgender<br \/>\nCisgender Female<br \/>\nCisgender Male<br \/>\nCisgender Man<br \/>\nCisgender Woman<br \/>\nFemale to Male<br \/>\nFTM<br \/>\nGender Fluid<br \/>\nGender Nonconforming<br \/>\nGender Questioning<br \/>\nGender Variant<br \/>\nGenderqueer<br \/>\nIntersex<br \/>\nMale to Female<br \/>\nMTF<br \/>\nNeither<br \/>\nNeutrois<br \/>\nNon-binary<br \/>\nOther<br \/>\nPangender<br \/>\nTrans<br \/>\nTrans Female<br \/>\nTrans Male<br \/>\nTrans Man<br \/>\nTrans Person<br \/>\nTrans*Female<br \/>\nTrans*Male<br \/>\nTrans*Man<br \/>\nTrans*Person<br \/>\nTrans*Woman<br \/>\nTransexual<br \/>\nTransexual Female<br \/>\nTransexual Male<br \/>\nTransexual Man<br \/>\nTransexual Person<br \/>\nTransexual Woman<br \/>\nTransgender Female<br \/>\nTransgender Person<br \/>\nTransmasculine<br \/>\nTwo-spirit<\/p>\n<div>But the path of continuous progress\u00a0is often a zig-zag. This wonderful change has not saved the FB account of the very person (a Facebook employee) who brought it in.\u00a0https:\/\/medium.com\/@zip\/my-name-is-only-real-enough-to-work-at-facebook-not-to-use-on-the-site-c37daf3f4b03<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Note that transexual is more usually spelt with a double &#8216;s&#8217; thus: transsexual.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t know how I missed this last year. http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2014\/02\/13\/male-female-or-custom-facebook-announces-major-expansion-terms-to-identify\/ Below is\u00a0a paste from that page. Note that originally\u00a0these terms were only available in the USA but they now\u00a0seem to be available here. Hooray! Any attempt to define these terms (and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/04\/facebook-now-has-50-genders\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-trans-androgyne"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Rs9D-2u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mixmargaret.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}