Tider's new update has 35 gender options

[UglyCasanova]

https://www.cnet.com/news/tinder-gets-transgender-friendly-with-a-massive-update/

Most of the options look like the same frickin thing to me though. Is there a difference between Trans vs Trans Woman vs Transgender Woman vs Transgender Female?


Here is the full list of auto-filled genders users can now select on Tinder:
Agender
Androgyne
Androgynous
Bigender
Female to Male
FTM
Gender Fluid
Gender Nonconforming
Gender Questioning
Gender Variant
Genderqueer
Male to Female
MTF
Neither
Neutrois
Non-binary
Other
Pangender
Trans
Trans Man
Trans Person
Trans Woman
Transfeminine
Transgender
Transgender Female
Transgender Male
Transgender Man
Transgender Person
Transgender Woman
Transmasculine
Transsexual
Transsexual Female
Transsexual Male
Transsexual Man
Transsexual Person
Transsexual Woman
Two-Spirit

 

[Newbian]

What is tider?

 

[Ricochet]

This is the kind of shit that made people vote Trump.

 

[child of wonder]

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[GagHalfrunt]

No Hermaphrodite-penguin? I'm going to sue!!

 

[DaveSimmons]

Too commercial. I only sleep with unsigned genders you've probably never heard of. On vinyl.

 

[Newbian]

No Hermaphrodite-penguin? I'm going to sue!!

 

[nakedfrog]

https://www.cnet.com/news/tinder-gets-transgender-friendly-with-a-massive-update/

Most of the options look like the same frickin thing to me though. Is there a difference between Trans vs Trans Woman vs Transgender Woman vs Transgender Female?

It's a reasonable question, but presumably there's a difference to someone.

This is the kind of shit that made people vote Trump.

Kinda funny, since they're usually the ones bemoaning the "pussification of America" when they're the ones getting sandy vaginas about things that realistically have little to no perceptible impact on their life.

 

[nakedfrog]

Too commercial. I only sleep with unsigned genders you've probably never heard of. On vinyl.

Vinyl? How quaint. If you'll excuse me, I'm off to load up my reel-to-reel player.

 

[herm0016]

you said that's all of them? so... is it offensive to say you are male or female now? you have to say "other"

 

[IronWing]

Does it really not allow one to select "male" or "female"? I'm a shens-leaning gender skeptic.

 

[nakedfrog]

you said that's all of them? so... is it offensive to say you are male or female now? you have to say "other"

Does it really not allow one to select "male" or "female"? I'm a shens-leaning gender skeptic.

From the link:

Now, along with "Man" and "Woman," Tinder users can choose among options such as "Trans Man," "Trans Woman" [...]

 

[KMFJD]

lmfao wow

 

[IronWing]

Still can't select Male Lesbian.

 

[nakedfrog]

Still can't select Male Lesbian.

That's a gender and a sexual orientation

 

[pauldun170]

So what?
It's a dating service and doing this benefits all users in that now when you are searching for "woman" you get females instead of males or people with "Before we do anything, let me explain...."
If you are specifically looking for "Gender whatever\Trans\wghatever" now you waste less time swiping.

Having said that...
I'm ready to abandon thread after seeing that Tider isn't some hot new app that I didn't know anything about.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Still can't select Male Lesbian.

That would follow under 'Other'

 

[skull]

Kinda funny, since they're usually the ones bemoaning the "pussification of America" when they're the ones getting sandy vaginas about things that realistically have little to no perceptible impact on their life.

You say that now just wait until were working on our 10th bathroom type or your kid calls a boy, a boy and the parents sue because he identifies as a female.

 

[Ruptga]

You say that now just wait until were working on our 10th bathroom type or your kid calls a boy, a boy and the parents sue because he identifies as a female.

That's scary because it's plausible.

...

 

[GagHalfrunt]

That's the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. Is he a Jew-phin or a law-phin?

 

[UglyCasanova]

You say that now just wait until were working on our 10th bathroom type or your kid calls a boy, a boy and the parents sue because he identifies as a female.

Pretty much this. People are free to act as crazy as they want but I'll be damned if I play along too. If it were confined to how they wanted to see themselves that's fine, but when colleges start forcing us to use stupid pronouns else it be considered harassment then it becomes not fine. And we've already started the slide down that slope and it IS affecting other people now.

 

[nakedfrog]

That's scary because it's plausible.

...

That could happen NOW, you can sue for whatever you want. Ernie Chambers famously sued God for terroristic threats.

 

[skull]

That could happen NOW, you can sue for whatever you want. Ernie Chambers famously sued God for terroristic threats.

The difference is, in your future world they could actually win.

 

[nakedfrog]

You say that now just wait until were working on our 10th bathroom type or your kid calls a boy, a boy and the parents sue because he identifies as a female.

It's hard to imagine why we'd need 10 bathroom types.

Pretty much this. People are free to act as crazy as they want but I'll be damned if I play along too. If it were confined to how they wanted to see themselves that's fine, but when colleges start forcing us to use stupid pronouns else it be considered harassment then it becomes not fine. And we've already started the slide down that slope and it IS affecting other people now.

My understanding of that situation is that it's intended to address people that say things like "People are free to act as crazy as they want but I'll be damned if I play along too" and intentionally and aggressively address someone by a different pronoun with malicious intent, not people who make simple mistakes.
I will grant that the potential for abuse of these rules is certainly a big problem.

 

[nakedfrog]

The difference is, in your future world they could actually win.

If the harassment is sufficient to convince the court system that they deserve to win, that seems fine. It could probably happen today under our existing system of laws.