Beyond male and female.

• Author: Evans, Xenon
• Position: Artifact - Facebook Inc.'s gender identity feature - Brief article

IN FEBRUARY, Facebook changed its gender identity feature. Users can choose among more than 50 possibilities, from androgyne to genderqueer. You may also pick your pronoun of choice.

Predictably, some people are not happy. On Fox & Friends, Clayton Morris and Tucker Carlson poked fun at the feature, asking why anyone would want to use it. Jane Fae of The Guardian claimed that Facebook should just eliminate gender identification entirely, because she believes it negatively impacts women.

Yet as Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison told the Associated Press, "There's going to be a lot of people for whom this is going to mean nothing, but for the few it does impact, it means the world."

Government has long operated with a mindset of simple...