Facebook has introduced a new option allowing users to identify themselves as a Gender other than male or female and transgender.
The basic user profile for members in the United States now includes a customisable category with a variety of gender identifiers, including "transgender," "intersex" and "fluid," the social networking company announced on Thursday.
"There's going to be a lot of people for whom this is going to mean nothing, but for the few it does impact, it means the world," Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison, who is undergoing a gender transformation from male to female, told the Associated Press news agency at facebook head quarter.
- Currently Custom genders are only available to those who use Facebook in US English, but the company plans to expand the range in the future.
- Facebook's move will help support young people whose sexual identities do not conform to traditional societal norms, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, a US-based gay advocacy group, told news agency.
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