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Just moments later his take an oath On Monday, President Donald Trump made a layer To the participants of his opening: “It is the policy of the United States government that there should be only two sexes: male and female.” Trump then signed disposition What the White House calls “gender ideology” and claiming that a person’s gender is “not immutable and not grounded (in grounded truth).”
Trump’s order widely seen unscientific The effort to roll back the rights of transgender and gender-nonconforming people would require federal agencies to ensure that “Government-issued identification documents, visas and global access cards,” accurately reflect the holder’s gender, “accurately reflect their gender identity. It was one of 78 orders signed Monday, some of which include an end to Trump’s plan to “socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.”
While an executive order affects only federal policy, the broad implications are broad. It’s only been a decade since Facebook”real name“Policy has made it difficult for people to put accounts under names other than their IDs. Facebook is compliant with these rules, but companies like Meta Clear the way There are digital safe spaces for LGBTQ+ people for users to claim that Trans people have “mental illnesses”. It looks like a flood. Except in one arena: dating apps.
In the wake of Trump’s executive order, the match group and Hal have both said they have no intention of reversing course when it comes to the gender identity options offered on their respective platforms.
“We’re not making changes to our apps,” says Kayla Whinaling, a spokeswoman for Match Group, which owns Okcupid, Tinder, Hinge and several other dating platforms.
It remains to be seen how other tech companies will respond to the executive order. Some, like Meta, seemed to fall for the Trump administration that arrived earlier this week. Earlier this month, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would Terminate a third-party fact-checking program and a transition to a community records model, à La X.
Zuckerberg abruptly removed the reverse as a bid to change free speech and allow more political content across Facebook, Instagram and threads. “We’re going to simplify our content policy and get a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that don’t touch our core discourse,” Zuckerberg said in a video accompanying the announcement.
If online life is even less inclusive for LGBTQ+ people during Trump’s term, apps like OkCupid, Halda, and Hinge could be digital havens, places to connect. “With so many of our civil rights at stake, dating apps have the ability to serve as important spaces for gender, race, and gender inclusion,” said ApryL Williams, a professor of Communication and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan. .
Ten years ago, in 2014, Okcupid expanded its gender options for users to include identities such as transgender, pangender, intersex, agent, and Genderqueer. It was among the first dating apps to accurately portray and develop an online personality. It currently provides an alternative to Tinder”dual“And the hinge allows users to choose”non-black“In their profiles.
