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| [https://bumble.com/ Bumble]. Dating/friend-finding service. | | [https://bumble.com/ Bumble]. Dating/friend-finding service. | ||
| style="background-color:#ffb;"| | | style="background-color:#ffb;"| Many gender options available in drop-down list, and users can suggest additional options. However, you can change your selected gender only once. Users must also select to be displayed in "Women" or "Men" category. | ||
| Terms & Conditions states "You agree to [...] use your real name on your profile" but it is unknown how strictly this is enforced. | | Terms & Conditions states "You agree to [...] use your real name on your profile" but it is unknown how strictly this is enforced. | ||
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| style="background-color:#9ff;" |No. The user profile has a field called "real name," but the user can submit anything into it. Legal names are neither enforced nor commonly used on the site. | | style="background-color:#9ff;" |No. The user profile has a field called "real name," but the user can submit anything into it. Legal names are neither enforced nor commonly used on the site. | ||
| No title field. | | No title field. | ||
Previously DeviantArt required users to input their sex, with "other" being an option, but this was removed sometime prior to 2011. A [[neutrois]] user was told to leave the site if [[pronouns#It|it]] "did not wish to state [its] gender", with administrators stating that the field was about users' genital sex and not gender identity. This action | Previously DeviantArt required users to input their sex, with "other" being an option, but this was removed sometime prior to 2011. A [[neutrois]] user was told to leave the site if [[pronouns#It|it]] "did not wish to state [its] gender", with administrators stating that the field was about users' genital sex and not gender identity. This action led to backlash from the community, causing DeviantArt to re-add "other" as an option in late-2011. | ||
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|[https://joindiaspora.com/ DIASPORA]. Social network. | |[https://joindiaspora.com/ DIASPORA]. Social network. | ||
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|[http://okcupid.com/ OK Cupid]. Dating site. | |[http://okcupid.com/ OK Cupid]. Dating site. | ||
| style="background-color:#9ff;" |Man and woman are shown as selectable, with 20 more possible choices after clicking | | style="background-color:#9ff;" |Man and woman are shown as selectable, with 20 more possible choices after clicking "more options". Up to 5 may be selected. Allows users to display any pronouns they like on their profile.<ref name="theb_Shar">{{Cite web |title=Share your pronouns on your OkCupid profile |author=OkCupid |work=Medium |date=10 September 2018 |access-date=11 September 2020 |url= https://theblog.okcupid.com/share-your-pronouns-on-your-okcupid-profile-16b307a227bb}}</ref> | ||
| style="background-color:#9f9;" | "Use the name, nickname, or initials you'd like your date to call you on OkCupid." "It's important to clarify that this does not need to be your real/legal name, it can be any name that you want someone to call you."<ref name="tech_OKCu">{{Cite web |title=OKCupid’s rating sinks as users rebel over new ‘real name’ policy |last=Perez |first=Sarah |work=TechCrunch |date=29 December 2017 |access-date=3 May 2020 |url= https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/29/okcupids-rating-sinks-as-users-rebel-over-new-real-name-policy/}}</ref> | | style="background-color:#9f9;" | "Use the name, nickname, or initials you'd like your date to call you on OkCupid." "It's important to clarify that this does not need to be your real/legal name, it can be any name that you want someone to call you."<ref name="tech_OKCu">{{Cite web |title=OKCupid’s rating sinks as users rebel over new ‘real name’ policy |last=Perez |first=Sarah |work=TechCrunch |date=29 December 2017 |access-date=3 May 2020 |url= https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/29/okcupids-rating-sinks-as-users-rebel-over-new-real-name-policy/}}</ref> | ||
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|[http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]. Free online encyclopedia. | |[http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]. Free online encyclopedia. | ||
| style="background-color:#ffb;" |Does not require users to submit their gender or pronouns when creating an account. | | style="background-color:#ffb;" |Does not require users to submit their gender or pronouns when creating an account. System messages refer to all users using they/them pronouns by default, with the only options being "gender neutral", "feminine", and "masculine". | ||
| style="background-color:#9ff;" |No | | style="background-color:#9ff;" |No | ||
|If one creates an account on Wikipedia, a variety of user-created [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes userboxes] are available to be placed on one's user page. Out of already existing userboxes, many different options are available for users to describe their gender identity, pronouns, and orientation, among other topics. | |If one creates an account on Wikipedia, a variety of user-created [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes userboxes] are available to be placed on one's user page. Out of already existing userboxes, many different options are available for users to describe their gender identity, pronouns, and orientation, among other topics. | ||