{"id":15053,"date":"2015-02-26T12:12:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T17:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/facebook-takes-another-step-toward-inclusion-allows-users-to-write-own-gender-description\/"},"modified":"2015-02-26T12:12:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T17:12:38","slug":"facebook-takes-another-step-toward-inclusion-allows-users-to-write-own-gender-description","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/facebook-takes-another-step-toward-inclusion-allows-users-to-write-own-gender-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Takes Another Step Toward Inclusion; Allows Users to Write Own Gender Description"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Facebook Takes Another Step Toward Inclusion; Allows Users to Write Own Gender Description<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/\/files\/images\/blog\/facebook-blog263_1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>                        Today, Facebook announced that it would update its custom gender feature so that its users will be able to use their own words to describe their gender identity.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/facebook-takes-step-another-step-toward-inclusion-allows-users-to-write-own?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/facebook-takes-step-another-step-toward-inclusion-allows-users-to-write-own?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook Takes Another Step Toward Inclusion; Allows Users to Write Own Gender Description Today, Facebook announced that it would update its custom gender feature so that its users will be able to use their own words to describe their gender identity. <a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/facebook-takes-step-another-step-toward-inclusion-allows-users-to-write-own?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/facebook-takes-step-another-step-toward-inclusion-allows-users-to-write-own?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Facebook Takes Another Step Toward Inclusion; Allows Users to Write Own Gender Description - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/facebook-takes-another-step-toward-inclusion-allows-users-to-write-own-gender-description\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Facebook Takes Another Step Toward Inclusion; Allows Users to Write Own Gender Description - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Facebook Takes Another Step Toward Inclusion; Allows Users to Write Own Gender Description Today, Facebook announced that it would update its custom gender feature so that its users will be able to use their own words to describe their gender identity. 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