Date: 2010-11-04 20:50 Security: Public Mood: angry xpost http://soph.livejournal.com/211366.html Tags: deviantart, link, transphobia Subject: deviantART and transphobia

About 19 hours ago, I tweeted about transfinite's appalling treatment from deviantART. Since then, that tweet has had 184 retweets.

If you haven't seen that post yet, please do so. Basically, a few months ago deviantART removed the option for "Unspecified" from its "Sex" dropdown on the profile, in a move reminiscent of what LJ wanted to do (but in the end, didn't). Unlike LJ, however, dA aren't backpedalling on this one.

I won't reproduce the full post here, but I wanted to highlight the part that really made me angry. dA responded to a support request that transfinite opened about this issue with "My apologies but there are only two sexes; male and female so one should apply to you. In the unusual case that you are hermaphrodite then I would suggest that you select the one which you feel applies the best."

Um. Yeah.

I've never been a deviantART member myself, but this only ensures I never will be one.