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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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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society
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To: BillyBoy; GeronL; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; sickoflibs; Bender2; Perdogg; ...
Andorians on Star Trek have four genders (zhen, shen, chan, and thaan). I should tell them I mentally FEEL Andorian and feel discriminated against since there's no "thaan" option.

What about me? I'm a chan trapped in a thaan's body. Trans-chan! Not to be confused with Charlie Chan.

Seriously most of those "options" are different words for the same thing. And I thought the whole point of the "trans" thing was to be the other sex? So wouldn't a guy who's had genital surgery want to click "female" rather than some third option?

"Cisgender" is funny, that's a word they made up to mean men and woman who AREN'T transomthing.

81 posted on 02/13/2014 10:16:29 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: markomalley
1. This is what happens we stop treating lunatics as lunatics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity_disorder
2. Cis Female, Cis Woman Cisgender Female, and Cisgender Woman are all the same thing.
82 posted on 02/13/2014 10:31:22 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Organic Panic

Well done. That covers it.


83 posted on 02/13/2014 10:38:57 PM PST by matt1234 (Hitler blamed the Jews. Obama blames the Tea Party.)
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To: Impy

These people are all mentally ill... I mean trans-crazy and cistarded


84 posted on 02/13/2014 11:32:24 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Impy
Ah, liberals gone wild. It's funny how all the "Cis" designations all just mean "normal". Facebook doesn't even need 58 gender designations to pander to gays. Every gay man I've met was born a man and still identifies as one, and all the lesbians I've met are the same way with their feminine identity. Probably less than 0.1% of the population ever "questions" their biological gender and needs one of the 58 terms to use instead.

When I think about it, those four gendered Andorians just probably wouldn't be diverse enough OR inclusive enough to meet liberals approval:

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The Andorian and Aenar species are unusual in that there are four distinct Andorian and Aenar sexes, and a union between all four sexes, an act known as the shelthreth, is required for procreation.

In the primary Andorian language, known as Andorii, the distinctions are as follows:

zhen - This sex roughly corresponds to female, and is the sex of the Andorian who will carry the zygote to term.
shen - This sex also roughly corresponds to female and is where all Andorian life originates. Although the zhen carries the infant, the child begins as gametes from the shen.
chan - This sex roughly corresponds to male.
thaan - This sex also roughly corresponds to male.

Reproductive process

The gametes of each "male" sex contain one quarter of the number of chromosomes necessary to produce offspring. During the conception of an Andorian child, the thaan fertilizes a shen's egg with his gamete. The chan then also fertilizes the egg. This produces a fertilized egg that develops into a zygote. The shen then transfers the zygote to the zhen's pouch, where it develops into an embryo. The Andorian fetus is incubated and nourished to term in the zhen's pouch. The zhen does not contribute genetically to offspring.

Two of the sexes, thaan and chan are approximately masculine, and the other two genders, zhen and shen, are approximately feminine. Andorians and Aenar accept the terms "male" and "female", and the pronouns "she/her" and "he/him", while dealing with binary-gendered species. (DS9 novel: Avatar)

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In summery, my guess is even the Andorians decide a Trans-Chan has mental problems and needs therapy. No Thaans in a Chan restroom!

85 posted on 02/14/2014 12:33:24 AM PST by BillyBoy (Looking at the weather lately, I could really use some 'global warming' right now!)
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To: publius911
Strange game...
Just like Obamacare.
The only way to win... ...is not to play!

It screams out to be mocked. Some of us are ready to take a stand on the insanity.

86 posted on 02/14/2014 3:49:43 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: markomalley

87 posted on 02/14/2014 6:10:43 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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“...So wouldn’t a guy who’s had genital surgery want to click “female” rather than some third option? ...” and “..a word they made up...”

Just because HE had Subtractadickfromme surgery and silicone boobs added doesn’t change the internal biology...

They can make up any little fantasyland they want to, but reality is what it is...

Sad, that people are that messed up in their heads that they mutilate themselves and make up words to justify it.


88 posted on 02/14/2014 6:26:59 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale; Impy; BillyBoy; GeronL; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; sickoflibs; Bender2

Do they have Hobbits, dwarves, and elves?


89 posted on 02/14/2014 3:51:19 PM PST by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: BillyBoy

90 posted on 02/14/2014 8:18:52 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Perdogg
Don't forget VAMPIRES. Though that may be more of "sexual orientation" rather than a "gender identity".
91 posted on 02/14/2014 8:21:14 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: angryoldfatman

CIS is a type of fuel injection system made by Bosch in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Not sure what “gender” it is though.


92 posted on 02/14/2014 8:25:29 PM PST by Tony in Hawaii (Freedom!)
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To: Perdogg; Impy; BillyBoy; GeronL; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; sickoflibs; Bender2

... and lions and tigers and bears, Oh My...


93 posted on 02/15/2014 6:18:07 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: GeronL; Impy
>> These people are all mentally ill... I mean trans-crazy and cistarded <<

LOL! They might as well add "trans-crazy" and "cistarded" to the list and make it an even 60 options. "Trans-crazy" can be for people who question their biological gender and think 60 options is a good thing, and "cistarded" can be for normal people who accept their biological gender but think 60 options is a good idea anyway.

>> Don't forget VAMPIRES. Though that may be more of "sexual orientation" rather than a "gender identity". <<

I read a guidebook to vampirism last Halloween (yes, I'll do that sort of thing when I'm bored) and the author explained that vampires, by definition, can't have a sexual orientation regardless of who they have sex with, since sex is used in biology as a drive for reproduction, and vampires are sterile but reproduce by bite, so all vampire sex is meaningless (wow, a guy writing about fictional vampires understands sex better than the "marriage equality!!" nuts do). He also said all vampires, by definition, have three parents, since they inherit traits in their biological makeup from three different people: their real mother and father, and the vampire (male or female) who bit them and turned them into a vampire.

We live in such a crazy world that Andorian and vampire genders and sexual identity make more sense that the nonsense words they invent for human beings in "real life"!

94 posted on 02/15/2014 10:15:43 PM PST by BillyBoy (Looking at the weather lately, I could really use some 'global warming' right now!)
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To: BillyBoy

I think Cistarded works fairly well


95 posted on 02/15/2014 11:56:04 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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