Facebook doesn't have "Other" on its gender categories

This upsets some people.

From here:

Dear Mr Zuckerberg,

My name is Sunil Babu Pant. I am the founder and director of Blue Diamond Society, Nepal’s first LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex) rights organization.

[…..]

In Nepal, we have been working with the government to improve this identity-based access to documentation and civic participation. The Government of Nepal is working to implement a third gender option, labeled “other,” on all official forms and registers.

I encourage you to do the same…..

What Sunil Babu Pant seems to be missing is that her (his? other?) LGBTI gender alphabet soup is also missing the “other” option. After all, perhaps there is some hitherto undiscovered mangled gender classification not covered by LGBTI.

Adding an “O” for Other would give us LITGOB; that has a euphonious ring to it.

The Diocese of New Westminster has a Facebook page

Unsurprisingly, it is billed as an example of the thing Canadian Anglicans do best: “Anglican Conversation”, a kind of Lostde-spiritualised glossolalia which, to distinguish it from the real thing, has no meaning in human or heavenly realms and, thus, cannot benefit from the gift of interpretation.

As of this writing, it has 36 people – I don’t think all are Ingham’s relatives – who like it, most of whom also belong to groups like “People of faith opposed to the burning of the Koran” (I have added “people of faith” to my annoying phrases list) and” Telling Pat Robertson to STFU” (unless he is reading from the Koran).

For those who want to “like” it, it’s here. I’m afraid there is no “dislike” button.