Websites and social networks: Difference between revisions

| style="background-color:#ffb;"| Calls this field "Sex." The user is required to choose from one of the three sex options given in the drop-down menu, which allows ‘Other’. Another drop-down menu allows the user to show or not show their sex selection on their profile. [http://nonbinary.org/wiki/File:DeviantArt_profile_evidence.jpg Evidence, 2015].

| style="background-color:#9ff;"| No. The user profile has a field called "real name," but the user can put any name into it they want. Legal names are neither enforced nor commonly used on the site.

| [https://joindiaspora.com/ DIASPORA]. Social network.

| style="background-color:#9ff;"| [http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2010/11/26/disalienation/ Gender is a text field].

| [https://www.dndbeyond.com/ D&D Beyond]. RPG site with forums.

| style="background-color:#9ff;"| Does not ask for user gender. Characters' gender is an optional text field.

| [http://dreamwidth.org/ Dreamwidth]. Social blogging community.

| style="background-color:#ffb;"| Includes options ‘Other’ or ‘Rather not say.’

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

| No title field.

| [https://ello.co/ Ello]. Social network.

| style="background-color:#9f9;"| Doesn't ask for gender information when creating a site account or have a gender section in user profiles.

| [http://emptyclosets.com/ Empty Closets]. Forum and chat site with coming out resources.

| style="background-color:#9ff;"| Options include Transgender - MTF, Transgender - FTM, [[Genderqueer]], and a write-in field.

| [http://www.etsy.com/ Etsy]. Indie sales of vintage and crafts

| style="background-color:#9ff;"| Options include female, male, or "Rather not say," which hides the gender field on your profile.

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

| [http://facebook.com/ Facebook]. Social network.

| style="background-color:#ffb;"| Requires user to choose male or female when creating an account, but [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/02/13/facebook_custom_gender_options_here_are_all_56_custom_options.html up to ten of 56 gender options] may be selected subsequently. A [http://rt.com/usa/236283-facebook-gender-custom-choice/ custom field] was added in 2014. Pronouns: Refers to a user as "she" or "he" depending on the gender they selected. A hack can make the software refer to a user as "they": [http://transitioningdownunder.com/post/46753530402/how-to-change-facebook-pronouns-to-they-them-their How to change Facebook pronouns to they].

| style="background-color:#f99;"| Yes. Enforced. Administrators suspend the accounts of people who they think might be violating the legal name policy, which tends to mean anyone with an unusual or non-Western name, or whose name the administrators think don't match their profile photo.

| Facebook often suspends the accounts of transgender women by claiming they violated the legal name policy, even those who give much proof that they were in fact using their legal names. Facebook also suspended the accounts of [[drag]] artists that were under their performance pseudonyms.

| [http://fetlife.com/ FetLife]. BDSM and fetish community.

| style="background-color:#ffb;"| The options the site allows for apart from male and female in the gender field are: crossdresser/transvestite, trans - male to female, trans - female to male, transgender, [[gender fluid]], genderqueer, intersex, [[butch]], [[femme]], and not applicable.

| [http://flickr.com/ Flickr]. Photography community.

| style="background-color:#9ff;"| Allows ‘Other’ or ‘I’d rather not say’ (the latter leaves the field blank on the profile). [http://lottelodge.tumblr.com/post/48775669339/hey-well-done-flickr Evidence: screengrab, April 2013.]

| [http://www.folkdirect.com/home/join.php Folkdirect]. Social network.

| style="background-color:#ffb;"| When signing up to the site, three gender fields are available: "Man", "Woman" and "[[third gender|Third]]".

| [http://plus.google.com/ Google+]. Social network.

| style="background-color:#9ff;"| Gender field allows ‘Other,’ and one can toggle who can see the choice: anyone, extended circles, your circles, or only you.

| [http://habitrpg.com HabitRPG]. Time management made into a multiplayer game.

| style="background-color:#9f9;"| No field. No way to enter your gender at all. Your game avatar is genderless. You can choose between two body types for your game avatar, called "slim" and "broad," but they're both gender-neutral figures. You can dress your game avatar in any combination of hairstyles, facial hair, or clothing you want, and none of these things are marked as being for one gender only.

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

| [https://www.instagram.com/ Instagram]. Image posting social network.

| style="background-color:#9ff;"| Gender can be male, female, custom, or "prefer not to say". Or you can just avoid selecting any of the options.

| style="background-color:#9ff;"| You can use "either your full name, nickname, or business name", and can change it twice every 14 days.

| [http://last.fm/ Last.fm]. Music listening service and social network.

| style="background-color:#9ff;"| Gender field allows 'Unknown' selection, which hides gender from the profile.

| [http://www.lauras-playground.com/forums/index.php? Laura's Playground]. Transgender forums.

| style="background-color:#ffb;"| Gender selection includes androgyne, [[crossdresser]], FTM, FT?, intersexed, MT?, transsexual, and transgender.

| [https://thisislex.app/ Lex], a dating/chat app for marginalised genders.

| style="background-color:#9ff;"| Does not ask about gender. Allows write-in pronoun field in profile.

| [https://www.littlegaybook.com/ Little Gay Book]. [[Lesbian]]-focused dating service (although open to any orientation /any gender)

| style="background-color:#9ff;"| Pronoun dropdown offers "He/Him", "They/Them", and "She/Her". Gender dropdown offers "[[Male]], [[Female]], [[Trans man|Female-to-Male (FTM)]], [[Trans woman|Male-to-Female (MTF)]], [[nonbinary|Non Binary]], [[Androgyne]], [[Genderqueer]], [[Pangender]], [[Gender Fluid]], [[Intersex]], [[Bigender]], [[Androgynous]], [[Gender nonconformity|Gender Nonconforming]]". Users also select their preferred gender(s) to date from the same list. Additionally, users answer "Where would you place yourself on the masculine - feminine spectrum using a 10-point scale?" (with "Prefer not to disclose" and "I am fluid" being options too) and select from the same masc-fem scale to describe their desired match.

| [http://livejournal.com Livejournal]. Social blogging community.

| style="background-color:#ffb;"| Drop-down selection menu includes 'Unspecified/Other' as an option.

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

| [http://nabyn.com Nabyn]. Art community.

| style="background-color:#ffb;"| Includes "Other" as an option.

| [http://okcupid.com/ OK Cupid]. Dating site.

| style="background-color:#ffb;"| 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>

| [http://www.quizlet.com Quizlet]. Shareable flashcard site.

| style="background-color:#9f9;"| Doesn't ask, no field.

| style="background-color:#9ff;"| No. You also have the option to hide your "real name."

| [https://www.quora.com/ Quora]. A site for asking and answering questions.

| style="background-color:#9f9;"| Does not ask, but allows user descriptions.

| style="background-color:#ffb;"| Asks for and enforces a person's real name, but there are many transgender and nonbinary people on there.

| [https://www.starfriends.org/ Starfriends] (aka *friends). Social network/dating site/

| style="background-color:#9ff;"| No gender field but you can add your gender and other descriptors as freetext tags.

| Site is currently in open alpha

| [http://skittlr.net/ Skittlr]. LGBT+ &amp; MOGII only social network.

| style="background-color:#9ff;"| Lots of options, and it is possible to get those that are missing added. None has to be selected.

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

| [http://www.transyada.net/forum/ TransYada]. Transgender forums.

| style="background-color:#9ff;"| Both the gender field and the (a)sexuality field are write-in. These fields are optional to fill in. One may also write-in preferred pronouns, and this field is optional.

| [https://www.trevorspace.org/ TrevorSpace]. Social networking site aimed at [[LGBTQ]] [[children|youth]] aged 13-24.

| style="background-color:#ffb;"| Has 27 different gender identities to choose from, including [[Agender]], [[Androgyne]], [[Pangender]], Trans*, Trans man, Trans woman, MTF, FTM, Intersex, Other and No label. Any gender identity selected cannot be anything other than public on the site, but it is also possible not to check a box at all. [http://oi59.tinypic.com/jfgpj4.jpg Screengrab, December 2014]

| [http://www.tumblr.com Tumblr]. Social blogging site.

| style="background-color:#9f9;"| Has no gender field of any kind. The interface doesn't use third person pronouns for users.

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

| [http://www.turtleseed.com Turtleseed]. Social micro-blogging site.

| style="background-color:#9f9;"| Has no gender field of any kind.

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

| [http://www.twitter.com Twitter]. Social micro-blogging site.

| 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

| 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

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

! Notes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

== See also==

* [http://genderqueerid.com/socialmedia Genderqueer Identities: Social Media]