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| style="background-color:#9ff;" | Doesn't ask for gender when creating an account and gender is not shown to anyone; however, there is a gender option hidden within the "Settings" menu, that allows you to choose from male, female or writing your own gender in. Changing the setting doesn't change anything of note.

| style="background-color:#9ff;" | No

|[http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]. Free encyclopedia Wiki.

| style="background-color:#9ff;" | If the user is a Wikipedia contributor, they can put [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes, Userboxes] on the profile, which allow for a great deal of gender, sex, and orientation description. See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ISD/Userboxes/Sexuality#Gender_identity, User:ISD/Userboxes/Sexuality]. Some of the userboxes that have been made with English descriptions, many with images, include: [[femme]], [[boi]], [[two-spirit]], kathoey, [[hijra]], [[transgender]], [[transsexual]], [[genderqueer]], [[androgyny|androgynous]], [[intersexual]], [[bigender]], [[trigender]], [[pangender]], [[third gender]], “This user has no gender identity, nor a sexual orientation,” and “This user is still unsure about their gender identity.”

| style="background-color:#9ff;" | No

|[http://youtube.com YouTube]. Video community.

| style="background-color:#9ff;" | Allows for Other or a blank field.

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!Website

!User gender (and pronouns)

!Legal name policy

|[https://www.change.org Change.org].

| style="background-color:#9f9;" | Doesn't ask about gender/sex. [http://nonbinary.org/wiki/File:Change.org.jpg Evidence, October, 2013]

|Doesn't ask about title. (See above evidence.)

|[https://www.duolingo.com/ Duolingo] (Language learning app with forums)

| style="background-color:#9f9;" | Does not ask.

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|[http://www.gopetition.com GoPetition].

| style="background-color:#9f9;" | Doesn't ask about gender or sex.

|They let you type your own title into the text field so you can put Mx or anything else you like. [http://mxactivist.tumblr.com/post/40851665833 Evidence, January 2013.]

|[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/irl-lets-hang/id1332596741?mt=8 IRL - Let's Hang] (iOS app)

| style="background-color:#ffb;" | Gives you three choices (boy, girl or non-binary) with the option to skip the question.

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|[https://www.coursera.org/ Coursera]

| style="background-color:#9f9;" | Doesn't ask about gender.

|Requires name listed on your government ID. [[:File:Coursera name.PNG|Evidence]]

|[https://twinoid.com/ Twinoid], gaming website network

| style="background-color:#ffb;" | Users can enter their "Sex" as Unknown, Male, or Female. Text in games refers to everyone as "they/them/their" regardless which sex you enter.

| style="background-color:#9f9;" | Does not ask about legal name.

|Site will shut down after 2020 due to Flash support ending.

== See also==

*[[Gender and social media sites]]

*[[Recognition]]

*[[Directory of online communities]]

*[http://practicalandrogyny.com/category/identity/web/ Practical Androgyny: Websites and Social Networks]

*[http://feministing.com/2011/07/12/google-has-a-gender-problem/ Feministing: Google+ has a gender problem]