Really, LJ? REALLY?
Dec. 14th, 2009 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daemonlunaWell. As I'm sure most everyone has heard, Livejournal is making gender a required field at registration, and a binary field with no option but male or female.
It's bad enough to not modify an existing policy, but to take a policy that currently allows for the option of chosing "unspecified" and changing it to one or the other male or female is a big step backwards. And if it's about stats or demographics, surely how many people choose not to self-identify as male or female is part of those statistics.
Really, LJ. Sex is biological and is as relevant to my account for an online journalling site as my eye colour or height (which, as far as I'm concerned, is NOT AT ALL), and gender is performative and likewise not something that should be mandatory on a registration form. YEESH.
It's bad enough to not modify an existing policy, but to take a policy that currently allows for the option of chosing "unspecified" and changing it to one or the other male or female is a big step backwards. And if it's about stats or demographics, surely how many people choose not to self-identify as male or female is part of those statistics.
Really, LJ. Sex is biological and is as relevant to my account for an online journalling site as my eye colour or height (which, as far as I'm concerned, is NOT AT ALL), and gender is performative and likewise not something that should be mandatory on a registration form. YEESH.
