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Any idea how Facebook handles people with rare gender pronouns? Doesn't Canadian law require use of chosen gender pronouns and Facebook operates in Canada.
by yostrovs 8y ago
Any idea how Facebook handles people with rare gender pronouns? Doesn't Canadian law require use of chosen gender pronouns and Facebook operates in Canada.
- drewbuschhorn 8y agoIt really doesn't, https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/canadian-lawmakers-pass-bill-extending-transgender-protections-n773421 https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/canadian-lawmakers-p... if you want primary and secondary sources. Basically it just says you can't actively discriminate against someone because of gender identity. Which had been the defacto law for a long time.
- dao- 8y agoI think I've seen "their" used instead of "her" or "his" where people declined to specify any gender. This works in English but not in German for instance, where I think they write "ihren/seinen" which translates to "her/his". I suppose that's as far as Facebook's support for gender choices goes.