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Meadester  ·  3927 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Facebook adds 50 new gender identifications: "Trans, Bi-gender, Adrogynous"

I often disagree with Jonah Goldberg and the rest of National Review on social/cultural matters but I think he nailed it here:

    So, imagine you’re a young Saudi guy logging on to Facebook for the first time. It asks you to state your gender. It then gives you 58 options. You take out your fingers — the simple man’s calculator — and start counting along. Male, female, whatever uncle Ahmed is . . . okay three. I count three.

    What are these other 55 things?

    You might think: Maybe those burkas don’t just cover women?

Then again, maybe it is better that trans-ethnic, otherkin, furry-bronies publish their headmate's identities on Facebook so the rest of us can be better prepared if we encounter them in what we call real life.