[Ryuuchan_X]

Why do people on ATRL go out of their way to be as ignorant as possible?

[KitKat]

Originally posted by Save-Me-Oprah

Yes, things like that. Thank you for finding an example.

[Funhouse]

Originally posted by Ryuuchan_X

Why do people on ATRL go out of their way to be as ignorant as possible?

Right? This always happens with every post about any social issue but it has been really bad with anything about gender lately

[RichGirlPlanet]

I'd like to see someone in this thread name 50.

[Su-Barbie-A]

Originally posted by Katie

Death at a site full of homosexuals acting like this is doing too much or not even realizing how many options there are.

I really hope this spreads across more avenues. The M/F only options are so belittling and downright offensive.

The struggle of the lGbt community.

[Eaten By Lions]

When my friend came out to me as trans I learned a lot about it, as well as from the documentary about that young trans girl who never in her life identified as a boy despite having a penis. It's obviously something people are born with, but to me it's still very hard to understand. Mainly because if gender is a social construct that is unfairly assigned, then what's the difference between identifying as a man or as a woman, either way you are identifying as a construct that is man-made and not reflective of you as an individual. I guess that's where the spectrum comes in.

Way, way back in Aboriginal history it was very unremarkable to separate sex and gender. Even if you had a hairy, muscular body and a 12" dick you could identify as a woman 100% and no one would have even thought of it as a strange. That's what I've heard anyway, I find it very interesting.

[RichGirlPlanet]

You know what?
None of you are going to do it; let me look it up myself.

[MoodyBumps]

Huh? How is 50 even possible?

[Su-Barbie-A]

Originally posted by boodytay

There are 2 genders: male and female. There are also people who have organs of both sexes who can choose which gender they are psychologically closer to and convert. What the purpose of 48 more genders that don't actually exist? OK, it would make sense if they added "intersex", for example, but I'm sorry there are no more genders/karyotypes that exist on planet Earth, other than male or female. Gender is constant, fixed and definite. Sexual orientation or how you act as a male or female is a totally different matter that has nothing to do with one's physical gender.

You're stupid and I will gladly take that WP.

[KB.]

Originally posted by boodytay

Yes, you're right, but do we need 50 options to describe the bolded ones?

Who am I to say no? I'm a female and have two X chromosomes, but a person who's born with 1 X chromosome can identify as either. Who's to say the missing chromosome is an X or a Y. A person with 48.XXYY has a set of two. According the the broad, and false, definition of maleness it requires you to only have 1 Y chromosome and a female to have two XX's. So what is a person that has 48.XXYY? Are they male, female, a male with Klinefelters, a male with XYY syndrome? There are way too many intangibles to just say male, female, or intersex.

[Vertigo Stick]

Originally posted by Melquiades

I will finally be able to label myself as a transdimensional cyphersexual.

Being serious, there shouldnt be a fixed number of genders, people must be able to put whatever they feel fit in that category.

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[debutante]

Originally posted by boodytay

Male and female are genders. And if a male/female feel psychologically closer to the opposite gender than to their own physical gender, then they should try to convert into the gender that fits their psychological state. There's no need for other genders.

Male and Female are not genders, they are biological sexes...

[Giliap]

Originally posted by J a y

I'm going to guess they'll include people with personality disorders who identify themselves as more than one person.

ff

[KB.]

And, as a straight female on a site full of gays, I've always been baffled as to how close minded some of y'all are.

[Eaten By Lions]

I looked at it and it's really not 50 genders listed on there, it's more like different ways of saying gender. Like isn't "trans woman" "mtf" and "woman" the same thing? I think it's just w/e people are comfortable with.

[Badger]

The ignorance on here Well done FB for rejecting a very outdated view on gender

[KitKat]

"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," said Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison, who worked on the project and is herself undergoing gender transformation, from male to female.

On Thursday, while watchdogging the software for any problems, she said she was also changing her Facebook identity from Female to TransWoman.

"All too often transgender people like myself and other gender nonconforming people are given this binary option, do you want to be male or female? What is your gender? And it's kind of disheartening because none of those let us tell others who we really are," she said. "This really changes that, and for the first time I get to go to the site and specify to all the people I know what my gender is."

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[FreeXone]

Originally posted by Flame

I can't wait to turn my gender into shemale wolf-human hybrid.

[NewRihannaStan]

ok

[Vertigo Stick]

1) Homosexuals are not a hive. We don't share the same music, same fashion, or same political views

2) Homosexuality and transgendered really shouldn't be lumped together. The former needs its own limelight, and adding it to homosexuality only confuses further confuses people. It may be mutually beneficial for both parties, as people see that not all gay people want to be the opposite gender and not all transgendered people are gay