Facebook will assign you a gender, and you'll like it!

[Butterfly]

Facebook will assign you a gender, and you'll like it!
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Alex Blaze
January 15, 2010 3:00 PM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/01/facebook_goes_by_birth_gender.php


A Canadian trans man found in December that his Facebook account had been disabled because the admin found that he uploaded a photo of himself shirtless. He said he put it up because he was "proud of my new chest, and I wanted to show it off."

Scaia's motivations aren't different from any other reason a man might want to show off his chest on Facebook if he's been working out or has a new tattoo. Dominic's on the left in the photos; the other photo is a random shirtless guy I found in searching Facebook for about two seconds. They don't seem to have a problem with cissexual men going shirtless.

[rejennyrated]

Rather a difficult policy to enforce with people like me who change very early in life, and/or long before they ever have a facebook account. All facebook knows is my current sex. They have no idea that I might once have changed because it's none of their business - and why would I tell them?

Its also probably fairly easy for them to be made to change the policy... all it needs is a few people who have changed from male to female to excerise their implied right under this policy upload some bare chested shots and we will see what facebook do then!

My guess though is that this has more to do with someone who knows this guy and knows of his past having "complained" about the shot. In which case the solution is to delete that so called friend and restrict access to his photos.

[xTwoOfHeartsx]

The policy was changed, thank god. And now I'm working on getting YouTube to change theirs. They recently removed a post op shirtless video of mine, and a similar video that belonged to one of my friends. Alex Blaze wrote about that a couple days ago.
(I'm Dominic Scaia, by the way.. lol)