Next moments President Donald Trump, President Donald Trump, announced a statement to the participants in his inauguration: “It will be the US government’s policy of only two sexes: men and women.” Trump then signed the executive order and ignored what the White House called the “gender ideology” and claimed that a person’s sexual intercourse could not be changed and [is] Based on the basic and unimaginable reality. “
Trump’s order, widely regarded as a non -scientific attempt to restore the rights of transcendent and gender, also orders federal agencies to “these documents issued by the government, including passports, visas and cards. Reflect on the worldly entry. It was one of the 78 orders signed on Monday, some of which were part of Trump’s efforts to end Biden’s policies, “the race and gender of social engineer in every aspect of public and private life”.
While executive guidelines only affect federal policies, the broad consequences are very widespread. It’s just a decade that Facebook’s “real name” policy has made people under different names under different names under different names. Facebook has modified these instructions since then, but as companies such as Meta cleans users to claim “mental illness”, digital secure spaces for LGBTQ+ are declining. Except in one field: Dating programs.
Following Trump’s executive order, the competition group and FEELD both told the Wired that they were not going to reverse the course when the gender identity options are offered in their respective operating systems.
“We do not make any changes to our plans,” says Match Group spokesman, who owns Okcupid, Tinder, Hinge and several other dating systems.
It is still clear how other technology companies will respond to the executive order. Some, like Meta, seemed to overshadow the Trump administration before this week. Earlier this month, CEO of Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would end the LA X’s program reviewing a third -party facts program and transfer to a community notes.
Zuckerberg conducted a sudden reverse as an attempt to increase free speech on Facebook, Instagram and topics, providing more political content. “We want to simplify our content policies and get rid of restrictions on topics such as immigration and gender that do not only communicate with the main discourse,” Zuckerberg said in a video with the announcement.
If online life for LGBTQ+ people becomes even less pervasive during the Trump period, programs such as Okcupid, Feeld and Hinge can become digital shelters, places to connect. “When many of our civil rights have been threatened, dating programs have the ability to serve as important spaces for gender, racial and sexuality. . ” Human
More than a decade ago, in 2014, Okcupid expanded its gender options to users to include identification such as Transgender, Pangender, Intersx, Adgender and gender. It was one of the first dating programs to capture a detailed image of identity online and the various methods that were evolving. Currently, Tinder provides an option for “Beyond Binary” and Hinge allows users to select “non -native” in their profiles.
