Websites and social networks: Difference between revisions

[[Websites and social networks]] that do or don't give [[recognition]] to [[nonbinary]] [[gender identity]] in their user forms. For nonbinary people, the most undesirable sites are those that require all users to mark their [[gender]] as either "[[female]]" or "[[male]]," with no other options. Similarly bad are sites that mark this choice as "[[sex]]" rather than "[[gender]]". Sites that are more friendly to nonbinary people are those that let users write in their own gender, give a wide variety of gender options to choose from a drop-down menu, give a third gender option such as "[[other]]", or don't ask about gender at all. Some sites also ask about a user's [[gender neutral titles|title]] or [[pronouns]], and ideally let users include more than the standard [[binary genders|binary]] options for these.

* blue (#9ff) means it's friendly to nonbinary people. For example, you can write in your gender (even blank it) or opt out of showing it.

* yellow (#ffb) means it's partly friendly to nonbinary people. For example, users must choose between showing a gender that is female, male, or other.

* red (#f99) means it's not friendly at all to nonbinary people. For example, it may require all users to be openly listed as male or female.

* white background means we don't have information about this yet, or some other situation (describe)

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| style="background-color:#ffb;" |<s>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].</s>

As of the Eclipse update (Circa 2020), the website no longer demands the gender nor sex of the person, but rather it asks for the person's pronouns. Only "He", "She" and "They" are currently available.

| 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.

| No title field. The site has history of administrators saying transphobic things to users. 'Other' as an option was once available, but taken away sometime prior to 2011. After a [[neutrois]] user was told to leave the site if [[pronouns#It|it]] "did not wish to state [its] gender", and the administrators told [[pronouns#it|it]] the field was about a user's genital sex and not gender identity, the backlash caused DeviantArt's administrators to backpedal and re-add "Other" as an option in late 2011.

| 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;" |Gender can be male, female, custom, or "prefer not to say". Or you can just avoid selecting any of the options. Starting May 2021, a pronoun field in the profile was implemented; users can add up to four pronouns from a pre-approved list.

|[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.”

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|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.]

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