anagramofbrat | About that LJ Genderfail

Just a heads up... if you see a notice roaming your friends list about Livejournal restricting the gender option to Male and Female, while it sucks that it even hit beta code (wtfwtfwtf???) it's not going to go to production. This is the letter they're sending in response to all the angry feedback:

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.

At this time, the code you reference is not live on the site, and will not become so in the future. We know that you, and many other users, have serious concerns about any requirement to specify gender, so we'd like to take a moment to explain events and our position further.

The intention of this code was to change the sign-up process to include a field for the selection of gender; that the code would completely disable the "Unspecified" option at the same time was deemed unacceptable. While the code in question had gone to our beta (testing) server, it had not gone to our production server, and will not do so due to this problem. Furthermore, we'd like to clarify that code posted to the changelog community is not always final, as such code must then go through the beta testing process and can often be changed before actual implementation.

Additionally, some erroneous information has been spread regarding the potential public display of the gender field. We would like to clarify that gender is not currently publicly displayed on the profile, nor anywhere else on the site, and there are no plans to change this behavior.

Whether this was something they planned on sneaking in under the radar and got busted or whether this was an honest mistake, I can't say. Considering most of the other LJ bitchery and fail that's come up over the years I really wouldn't be surprised either way.

ETA: also this via