OkCupid Becomes More Inclusive of Gender & Sexuality Variations

OkCupid, a popular dating website, has expanded its gender and sexuality variant, becoming more inclusive of the broad spectrum of labels.

The gender options are now: woman, man, agender, adrogynous, bigender, cis man, cis woman, genderfluid, genderqueer, hijra, intersex, non-binary, other, pangender, transfeminine, transgender, transmasculine, transsexual, trans man, trans woman and two-spirit.

The sexuality options are: straight, gay, bisexual, asexual, demisexual, heteroflexible, homoflexible, lesbian, pansexual, queer, questioning and sapiosexual (being attracted to intelligence).

These changes are only available to a select few users for the first roll-out of the new terms, but will be available to all users soon.

The listing of “sapiosexual” has been controversial, with critics complaining that being attracted to a trait like intelligence does not constitute a sexuality.

Overall, the changes have brought about positive attitudes toward OkCupid, hopefully inspiring like-minded changes on similar websites. [H/T GayStarNews]