Kenya: Facebook Expands Users' Gender Options

18 February 2014

Usually the options are male or female, that is generally how we all have been programmed to think. While in reality some people are not just man or woman. Some people might not consider themselves to be male or female; hence Facebook has put out a new update whereby its users can choose from among 50 plus choices.

These other gender choices include: transgender, genderfluid, non-binary, pangender, agender or inter-sex all these examples are for those people who for some reasons feel they are not of the mainstream me or female gender.

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