If Ben & Jerry’s offered an ice cream flavor for every gender in the world, they would offer two. Still sociology departments and social justice warriors across the country have over embellished people’s options, and now Tinder is offering a wide array of various options about how to describe users’ gender.
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The online dating app announced on Wednesday that users would be able to select from 37 different genders including man, woman, gender fluid, androgynous, pangender, non-binary, gender questioning, transgender, transsexual, or they can just write in whatever gender they want.
That’s right! If Helen Keller was alive and on Tinder, she could write “48r3948r!faefjfoijfjfeg8?u5u0249u” as her gender and that be acceptable.
“We haven’t had the right tools to serve our diverse community in the past, but that changes today,” the company wrote in a statement on their website.
Tinder’s CEO Sean Rad told The Observer that the election and Donald Trump’s candidacy has made them more aware of wanting to be inclusive towards minorities and said disrespectful conversations.
“The tone of this election made us really think about what conversations are appropriate on and off our platform,” Rad said. “‘Locker room talk’ is not acceptable on or off Tinder. Harassment of any type—toward transgender users or otherwise— will not be tolerated. And we will be rolling out more features to address this.”
Oddly enough one of the gender options is neither, a word that would suggest there are only two choices because there are, male or female.
