Thursday, February 26, 2015

Facebook stops defining gender for its users


Last year Facebook took a socially responsible step forward when it allowed users to choose from preset custom genders like "cisgender" or "transgender." But while the company worked with GLAAD to generate the custom genders, the move was not completely celebrated because users were still made to choose from pre-defined options. Now, it appears those options are gone as the company has started rolling out a new version of its custom gender field. This version still populates suggestions as you type, but also allows users to type in any word they wish to represent themselves with across Facebook.


It works the same way as the "infinite" gender options Google+ rolled out back in December, and the options that Facebook introduced last...


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