Gender on LJ
Sep. 23rd, 2005 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarahmichiganDid you know that there's a whole community on LJ dedicated to asking the maintainers of LJ to add options other than Male, Female, and Unspecified to the Gender pull-down menu on your user info?
http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=gender_petition
Apparently, a request for more options was made in 2001, the petition community was started in 2003, but the three options are still the only ones on LJ.
What do you think? I didn't join because the user info page says that by joining you're signing the petition in favor of either a. eliminating gender on the profile or b. adding more options (genderless, MTF, FTM, androgynous, etc.). It's not that I'm not supportive of trans issues generally, it's just that I'm sorting out what I think about the petition, specifically.
http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=gender_petition
Apparently, a request for more options was made in 2001, the petition community was started in 2003, but the three options are still the only ones on LJ.
What do you think? I didn't join because the user info page says that by joining you're signing the petition in favor of either a. eliminating gender on the profile or b. adding more options (genderless, MTF, FTM, androgynous, etc.). It's not that I'm not supportive of trans issues generally, it's just that I'm sorting out what I think about the petition, specifically.
