Queer, transgender and non-binary people find love online
By 10 THOUSAND COUPLES EMAG CONTRIBUTORS
Posted: Jul 9th, 2014

(PR) Brooklyn-based Mesh, the first online dating service with advanced message filtering, announces its newly expanded gender and sexual orientation identification options that allows queer, transgender and non-binary people to identify as themselves and to be matched with their preferred partners. Mesh is the first mainstream online dating service to offer these identification options. And it's all completely free.

More: http://10thousandcouples.com/issue/june-2014/article/queer-transgender-and-non-people-daters-find-love-online#sthash.MHRuycha.dpbs

This is cool though two things. 1st, how does everyone here feel about this and would you list you're trans, queer etc.? Do you think this is safe for us? 2nd, they should have included Q (question) as a gender option.

Quote from: Shana-chan on July 12, 2014, 10:26:34 AM
This is cool though two things. 1st, how does everyone here feel about this and would you list you're trans, queer etc.? Do you think this is safe for us? 2nd, they should have included Q (question) as a gender option.

Ideally, I'd love to find someone who knows I'm trans and is OK with this, so listing my transness on an online profile is attractive.

When I tried that on OKCupid, I got no responses at all (except from trans people, of which there weren't many). It's only when I removed the word "transgender" (but left the rest of my site untouched) that I started getting responses.

Safe? Perfectly. I was perfectly safe because no one wanted to get near me!

I would welcome a dating site where being transgender was just one more thing about my past rather than a disqualifying condition.

It's reasons like these that I love the internet so much.

Well, maybe not the site itself (I know nothing about it) but the ability for humans to connect on a whole different level. I grew up in the middle of nowhere with no other queer people in sight, but being on the internet was a life saver for me.