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Idea For Coming Out On Facebook


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Guest mary/jason

Just go in and change your sex from one to the other. Not too showy but still gets the message across. I wish they'd phrased it as gender instead of sex so it could be used by more people. But I just thought this would be an easy way of coming out without being too much to handle.

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Guest Donna Jean

Just go in and change your sex from one to the other. Not too showy but still gets the message across. I wish they'd phrased it as gender instead of sex so it could be used by more people. But I just thought this would be an easy way of coming out without being too much to handle.

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Hummmmm...

I think that if one were to do that it would most likely be missed...so many people rarely look at gender/sex after the initial time...

But, it would certainly be subtle!

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Guest mary/jason

i think its one of those things that if you change it, it gets posted to your profile thing as an announcement. if it doesnt do that then someone would see it eventually. facebook is as pretty official as it can get lol.

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i think its one of those things that if you change it, it gets posted to your profile thing as an announcement. if it doesnt do that then someone would see it eventually. facebook is as pretty official as it can get lol.

I did it, yes. And it does not make an announcement.

But while people would not likely see it in the gender space on your profile page, every alert they get that is about you will use that pronoun. Any official message about you will use it.

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That's actually how I came out to some of my friends. That and changing my name on there as well. A couple friends had questions about the change, which I answered as best I could. Some just rolled with it.

I'm a very non-confrontational person by nature, so this was the perfect method for me.

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Guest SidESlicker

One of the things that really ticks me off about Facebook is that they only support two genders.

There's not even the option to have "unspecified" which really bothers me.

Just food for thought.

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Guest sarah f

I am going to that exact thing after I tell my close friends and family. I am also going to put a short post in there letting people know that I am transitioning into a girl and if they still support me then great, if not please remove me from their friends list.

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Guest Elizabeth K

I cheated on Facebook as I never went on under my original name or gender. I just registerd FEMALE, not a lie at all. Then I wrote in my profile under my photo:

Hello people - some of you may have known me in my previous life, some of you may know me now. I do want to say upfront I am transgendered and - well - I am really about the same person, just female now. Its a great story.

I think that tells it all.

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I thought it was quite cool that they offer a gender neutral option too. :) I mean, a way of inputting your own gender label and pronouns would be even cooler but hey, they're still ahead of most in this.

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