"You don't have to be strictly a man or a woman on Facebook anymore.
In a nod to the "it's complicated" sexual identities of many of its users, the social network on Thursday added a third "custom" gender option for people's profiles. In addition to Male or Female, Facebook now lets U.S. users choose among some 50 additional options such as "transgender," "cisgender," "gender fluid," "intersex" and "neither."
Users also now have the ability to choose the pronoun they'd like to be referred to publicly: he/his, she/her, or the gender-neutral they/their.
"When you come to Facebook to connect with the people, causes, and organizations you care about, we want you to feel comfortable being your true, authentic self," Facebook said in a post on its Diversity page." CNN
But how many genders did Christ mention?
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Mark 10:6
As for FB, what did you expect? They are a company of the world......and have nothing to do with God, nor respect for God in any serious way....So this should be no surprise that they do something like this...
Guide to Facebook’s New Options for Gender Identity
agender: One sense of prefix a- is “without.” Agender Facebook users don’t necessarily see themselves as lacking a gender but probably don’t see it as a central, defining part of their identity.
agender: One sense of prefix a- is “without.” Agender Facebook users don’t necessarily see themselves as lacking a gender but probably don’t see it as a central, defining part of their identity.
androgyne/androgynous: A popular conception of an androgynous person is someone who on first glance looks like they could be male or female, like those waify models in Calvin Klein ads.
bigender: A person identifies with two distinct genders.
cis/cisgender: Cis, Killermann says, is essentially a politically sensitive replacement for normal. A cis person was born one sex and also identifies with the gender associated with that sex—born female and identifying as a woman or born male and identifying as a man, just as society expects.
cis female/male/man/woman: See previous entry. These are just ways to be more specific.
cisgender female/male/man/woman: As discussed.
female to male/FTM: A “female to male” Facebook user is signaling that they were assigned the female sex at birth but is undergoing—or has undergone—a transition to being male.
gender fluid: A person who “experiences gender in different ways at different times, who flows through gender identities.”
gender fluid: A person who “experiences gender in different ways at different times, who flows through gender identities.”
gender nonconforming/genderqueer/non-binary: Killermann groups these three labels together because they are all a rejection of the idea that there are just two boxes to choose from—male or female.
genderqueer: Genderqueer is more decisive—more “I’m here, and I’m genderqueer!”—
gender questioning: Like gender nonconforming, this is a good term for someone who is still in search of a more specific label that fits how they feel,
gender variant: This term is similar to gender nonconforming, Killermann says, describing someone “who by nature or by choice doesn’t conform to gender-based expectations of society.” This person might be a cross-dresser...
intersex: A person who is intersex was typically born that way, perhaps with “ambiguous genitalia” or a chromosomal abnormality that gives him or her some combination of both male and female sexual characteristics.
male to female/MTF: Someone who was assigned the male sex at birth and is undergoing—or has undergone—a transition to being female.
neither/other: A “neither” user could be someone who isn’t well-versed in the terminology of gender identity,
neutrois: Killerman says this French-esque term, pronounced noo-TWA, is relatively new.
non-binary: See gender nonconforming.
pangender: A pangender Facebook user probably sees themselves
as “a little bit of everything in the sexual catalog,” . A lot of young people he’s encountered are attracted to the “pansexual” label, he says, meaning they’re attracted to all genders.
trans: A trans person does not identify with the gender that corresponds to the sex they were assigned at birth.
trans*: Trans*, with an asterisk, is used more as an “umbrella label” than trans. It is a blanket ambiguity that is intentionally vague and includes a gambit of gender identities.
trans female/trans* female: A person who was assigned the male sex at birth but identifies as female.
trans woman/trans* woman: A person who was assigned the male sex at birth but identifies as female.
transgender female/woman: A person who was assigned the male sex at birth but identifies as female. Choosing this label over the previous one might just be a stylistic choice,
trans male/trans* male: A person who was assigned the female sex at birth but identifies as male.
transgender male/man: A person who was assigned the female sex at birth but identifies as male. Choosing this label over the previous one might just be a stylistic choice.
transmasculine/transfeminine: These labels also speak to the distinction between gender identity and gender expression (see androgyne/androgynous). They may act more like adjectives, describing a set of behaviors that don’t necessarily add up to a noun like man or woman. A transmasculine person, Killermann says, might be someone born female who identifies with a lot of aspects of masculinity but doesn’t feel he or she is a man.
trans person/trans* person/transgender person: This label might be used by someone who doesn’t identify with the sex they were assigned at birth but also doesn’t conform with what it means to be a man or a woman.
transsexual/transsexual person/man/woman/female/male: A person opting for this label was likely born one sex and has medically transitioned to another sex
two-spirit: This term, Killermann says, comes from Native American culture, describing someone who embodies both the spirits of a man and a woman. “People were celebrated as wise, cultural leaders, almost elders, because they could channel what people saw as the two ends of humanity,” he says. This term has also become popular for young people to adopt, he says, perhaps because it sounds so mystical and romantic—as far away from clinical as most of these terms get.
TimeMagazinetwo-spirit: This term, Killermann says, comes from Native American culture, describing someone who embodies both the spirits of a man and a woman. “People were celebrated as wise, cultural leaders, almost elders, because they could channel what people saw as the two ends of humanity,” he says. This term has also become popular for young people to adopt, he says, perhaps because it sounds so mystical and romantic—as far away from clinical as most of these terms get.
