I take your point and the third option should be there, but by the same token I know plenty of transfolk who have no problem at all choosing one of the two, and indeed have run into them (presumably unknowingly as well as knowingly) in such places.
It might be fairer and more accurate to say that transgender people are underrepresented on dating sites, but then the same is true I imagine for many, many minority groups and walks of society. Dating sites are not for everyone, and don't appeal to every section of society in the same way or for the same reasons, and I couldn't begin to guess who's most represented where. Maybe OKCupid's analytics blog will get to it.
... which leads to the social model and the fact that we have a society designed in such a way which excludes many minority groups, often by accident, or at least lack of deliberation.
Certainly didn't mean to imply, though, that transgender == third-gender. Transgender is an umbrella which includes third-gender.
Yes, acknowledged. I certainly try to watch my words around transgender <> transsexual, but given the massive overrepresentation of transsexual compared to other transgender identities, I don't mind that much occasionally straying into overrepresenting non-binary-gendered transgender people.
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(Not that trans is a mental condition, grrr.)
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It might be fairer and more accurate to say that transgender people are underrepresented on dating sites, but then the same is true I imagine for many, many minority groups and walks of society. Dating sites are not for everyone, and don't appeal to every section of society in the same way or for the same reasons, and I couldn't begin to guess who's most represented where. Maybe OKCupid's analytics blog will get to it.
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Certainly didn't mean to imply, though, that transgender == third-gender. Transgender is an umbrella which includes third-gender.
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If you go back and look at your comment, that is precisely what you implied. You wanna watch that. ;P
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Not trying to be picky, but just wondering if binary thinking has been defeated here, only to lead to trinary thinking instead.
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However, I wouldn't be surprised if there is someone amongst your collective readership who can...
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