Oh LJ...

[angelikitten]

LiveJournal's making a change to the gender setting on the profile page.

* Gender will be a mandatory field at account creation.

* LiveJournal is removing the Unspecified option for the gender field. That's right: you get to be male or female. Period. That's it. ( Source.)
I... I don't even have words to explain how much this hurts me. And it does

Comments

[oudeteron]

I am so glad I found this post only after the final edit. I get enough mandatory - not to mention wrong - gendering bullshit in day to day life; I don't need more of the same from a site that has so far been decent.

[montrealais]

Here's the answer I got:

Thank you for taking the time to contact us with your concerns. We understand that gender is not binary, and intend to respect that understanding for our users