[Update] Grindr Is Updating Its App To Endure To A Greater Extent Than Gender-Inclusive

Grindr announced novel updates today to its gay dating app on iOS in addition to Android that are designed to brand its social network experience to a greater extent than inclusive of transgender users. The app volition straight off include to a greater extent than gender-neutral terms, in addition to it’s getting an identity department on user profiles that includes options for sex in addition to pronouns. Importantly, users tin likewise write inwards their sex identity if it’s non on the listing in addition to specify pronouns that likewise mightiness non hold out listed. Additionally, gender-neutral linguistic communication is used across the app, in addition to there’s straight off an FAQ explaining trans issues.

Gender options listed include “trans man,” “woman,” “cis man,” “non-binary,” “non-conforming,” in addition to “queer.” The options are meant to instruct inwards easier for users to limited their identities without having to constantly explicate in addition to respond other users’ questions.

The changes come upward equally a straight number of Grindr conducting a survey alongside thousands of existing users of the app who are transgender. Transgender users gave feedback to app developers proverb that their non-trans peers didn’t know how to beak respectfully close transgender issues.

“We created written resources linked from the sex identity fields inwards the profile to respond cis users’ questions in addition to decrease that burden on trans people,” Grindr manager of equality Jack Harrison-Quintana said inwards an emailed statement.

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