In recent years, Facebook has come a pretty long way in proving themselves to be a supporter of LGBT rights. A few years ago, they altered their profile settings, so that bisexual users like myself -- thanks, Facebook -- could update their profiles to state they were attracted to both sexes. Then this morning it was announced that Facebook had again updated the profile settings. This time, however, they edited the settings to include more than fifty different terms for users to use to describe themselves and their gender. Facebook also added three pronouns choices for users to select from: him, her, them. The new settings can be seen in the picture below, which was taken from the Huffington Post website.
I think it's pretty safe to say that this is a huge step for Facebook, and a supporter of trans rights, I applaud them for taking this step. I think it's awesome to see a little bit more love and acceptance in the world as opposed to....Well, that other yucky stuff. Hopefully, we'll get to see more awesome stuff like this from other social media sites in the future.
We need more stuff like this in the world, so thank you, Facebook.
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