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|[http://facebook.com/ Facebook]. Social network.
|[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:#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.
| style="background-color:#f99;" |Yes. Enforced. Administrators have suspended the accounts of people who they think might be violating the legal name policy, according to the administrators' own views and discretion.
|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.
|Facebook has often suspended the accounts of transgender women claiming they violated the legal name policy, even when proof has been provided supporting the legal status of their names. Facebook has also suspended the accounts of [[drag]] artists that were under their performance pseudonyms.
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|[http://fetlife.com/ FetLife]. BDSM and fetish community.
|[http://fetlife.com/ FetLife]. BDSM and fetish community.
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