“I personally think the most effective way to address this would be including an empty field that can allow users to enter how they identify.” I don’t agree at all. While this would be nice since there are limitless different ways to identify, I think this feature would be abused a lot. If given the option, [...]

I am genderqueer and I don’t agree with most of this. When I was signing up for Google+ I was unbelievably happy to see a third gender category. Yes, it’s “other”, and yes, that’s not “genderqueer” or “bigender” or “agender,” etc, and it doesn’t let you select your own pronouns, but why were we expecting [...]