{"id":16009,"date":"2012-03-23T00:13:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T04:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16009"},"modified":"2012-03-23T00:13:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T04:13:11","slug":"facebook-doesnt-have-other-on-its-gender-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/facebook-doesnt-have-other-on-its-gender-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook doesn&#039;t have &quot;Other&quot; on its gender categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This upsets some people.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2012\/03\/22\/letter-mark-zuckerberg-please-allow-users-to-list-their-gender-as-other\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Pinknews+%28Pink+News%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Mr Zuckerberg,<\/p>\n<p>My name is Sunil Babu Pant. I am the founder and director of Blue Diamond Society, Nepal\u2019s first LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex) rights organization.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026..]<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cother,\u201d on all official forms and registers.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to do the same\u2026..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What Sunil Babu Pant seems to be missing is that her (his? other?) LGBTI gender alphabet soup is also missing the &#8220;other&#8221; option. After all, perhaps there is some hitherto undiscovered mangled gender classification not covered by LGBTI.<\/p>\n<p>Adding an &#8220;O&#8221; for Other would give us LITGOB; that has a euphonious ring to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s first LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex) rights organization. [\u2026..] In Nepal, we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/facebook-doesnt-have-other-on-its-gender-categories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[2137,2167],"class_list":["post-16009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","tag-facebook","tag-homosexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}