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Here’s a List of 58 Gender Options for Facebook Users
ABC ^ | 2/13/2014 | Russell Goldman

Posted on 02/13/2014 3:52:20 PM PST by markomalley

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User’s can now select a “custom” gender option.

“There’s going to be a lot of people for whom this is going to mean nothing, but for the few it does impact, it means the world,” Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison told the Associated Press. Harrison, who worked on the project, is in the process of gender transition, from male to female.

Facebook will also allow users to select between three pronouns: “him,” “her” or “their.”

The following are the 58 gender options identified by ABC News:

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(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: facebookisthedevil; homosexualagenda
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To: Vaquero
Strange game...
Just like Obamacare.

The only way to win... ...is not to play!

61 posted on 02/13/2014 4:46:29 PM PST by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good g race to resign!)
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To: needmorePaine
It comes from chemical terms. Some molecules are, like, right-handed or left-handed? Meaning there may be two molecules with the same molecular formula, except they look like mirror images, paired left-right. One is called the "cis" form and the other is called the "trans" form of the molecule.

If this is wrong, then I have no idea....

62 posted on 02/13/2014 4:48:02 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.))
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To: markomalley
Gender hints.

Sex hints.

63 posted on 02/13/2014 4:48:28 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: Bogey78O
Juvenile but not always perverse.

When I was a little girl, pretending to be animals was a common thing. My friends and I could act out the whole "Aristocats" movie. Nobody wanted to be the humans!

64 posted on 02/13/2014 4:58:06 PM PST by Tax-chick (Oh, what fun.)
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To: needmorePaine
I don’t know what most of them mean either. What is “cis?”

It means "on the same side" and is a term used in chemistry. The opposite of "cis" is "trans." So if you stuck two pieces of tape on one side of a piece of glass, they would be "cis" and if you put one on each side of the glass, they would be "trans."

In terms of gender, I have no clue what that word is supposed to mean. The correct terms for "gender" are "male" and "female."

65 posted on 02/13/2014 4:59:35 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: beef
“The problem with this is that by forcing normal people to adopt “cis male” or “cis female”, you are being co-opted into this whole insane mess”

That is the whole point. Cis is a derogatory term made up by the homosexuals and transwhatevers to make normal people be not normal but just one of many categories. To them, sticking to traditional gender roles is the bad thing. Being weird and perverted is the good thing. So they make up a derogatory term for normal people. And about a hundred positive terms for themselves.

66 posted on 02/13/2014 4:59:39 PM PST by detective
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I didn’t see male lesbian


67 posted on 02/13/2014 4:59:59 PM PST by cork (Gun control = hitting what you aim at)
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To: markomalley

I’m so confused.

I thought I was hip.

I’d go with male, female, and asexual. (There really are people who just care enough about sex to pick a team. Not gay, just really don’t are.)

When you have that many choices, it’s too hard to chose.


68 posted on 02/13/2014 5:05:49 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: markomalley

I could see 57 flavors, but 58....that just nuts...


69 posted on 02/13/2014 5:18:03 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: markomalley

Is there an option called “you guess”?


70 posted on 02/13/2014 5:26:46 PM PST by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: Yaelle

That would be cis-weirdo!


71 posted on 02/13/2014 5:52:49 PM PST by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: markomalley

Have I got this right? They list 58 “gender” options and not one of them is simply “male” or “female”?

Seriously?

I am beginning to worry about the world my children are growing up in.


72 posted on 02/13/2014 6:16:48 PM PST by PotatoHeadMick
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To: beef
I used to browse Reddit and you would be surprised how they loved using the word "cis" as if it were a legitimate scientific term, but I looked up the origin of cis and it was invented on a message board on USENET in the '90s by a transsexual who wanted to label people who were normal..other than normal..
Carl Buijs, a transsexual man from the Netherlands, claiming that Buijs coined the word in 1995.[9] In April 1996, Buijs said in a Usenet posting, "As for the origin, I just made it up. I just kept running into the problem of what to call non-trans people in various discussions, and one day it just hit me: non-trans equals cis. Therefore, cisgendered

73 posted on 02/13/2014 7:10:36 PM PST by Contrarius
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To: markomalley

I want to be a lesbian, then I can still chase women and I can tee off from the red tees!!!


74 posted on 02/13/2014 7:18:26 PM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails over all else)
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To: unseelie

Anyone who would use any of these designations — Weirdo, Deranged, Abnormal, Queer!


75 posted on 02/13/2014 7:24:03 PM PST by Waryone
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To: Yaelle
I vaguely remember the terms “cis” and “trans” from my limited exposure to organic chemistry 40 years ago. I do remember that they had nothing to do with peoples sexual delusions.
76 posted on 02/13/2014 7:30:41 PM PST by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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To: Paladin2

They need another selection : whatever will get me laid.
OR
whatever makes a white guy a protected diversity class


77 posted on 02/13/2014 8:00:17 PM PST by tbw2
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To: markomalley

Praise God a little extra tonight that you still live in the normal part of the world/ reality/ whatever. I do not know, nor do I want to know, NOR do I care what any other living soul thinks about that. Enough!


78 posted on 02/13/2014 8:09:03 PM PST by KGeorge (Till we're together again, Gypsy girl. May 28, 1998- June 3, 2013)
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To: markomalley

I can make this pretty easy.

Were you born with a penis? You are a male
Were you born with a vagina? You are a female
Were you born with both? You are a hermaphrodite

Did you add a penis to your body? You’re a freak but still a female.
Did you remove a penis to your body? you’re a freak but still a male


79 posted on 02/13/2014 9:07:18 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: markomalley

Damn! I’m so old I remember when there were only two! And that was just a few years ago. I really had no idea the human genome had mutated that much in such a short period of time. But at least we finally now know what distinguishes homo sapiens from the rest of the animal kingdom: we have 58 genders and everything else has only one or two.


80 posted on 02/13/2014 9:34:55 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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