This month, Facebook started allowing users to self-identify as something other than male or female. Good. There may be some cynical ad-targeting motive at work, but as Facebook spokesman Will Hodges explains, “While to many this change may not mean much, for those it affects it means a great deal.”

You can roll out the improvement in your Facebook settings, and pick who will (and won’t) see your new sex terminology. You can likewise change the pronoun Facebook utilizes when it discusses you to the sexually unbiased (yet linguistically tricky) “they” (not “xe” or “thon”). The new choices are just accessible in the U.S. as such.

All in all, on the off chance that you don’t distinguish as male or female, then what? All things considered, Facebook offers 56 choices. You can utilize something like 10e a ton, however really a hefty portion of them are minor departure from a topic—”cisgender man” and “cisgender male,” and in addition “cis man” and “cis male.” as far as general classes, there around twelve. This is what they mean:

1. Agender/Neutrois — These terms are utilized by individuals who don’t relate to any sexual orientation by any stretch of the imagination—they tend to either feel they have no sex or an impartial sex. Some utilization surgery and additionally hormones to make their bodies comply with this sexual equity.

2. Androgyne/Androgynous — Androgynes have both male and female sexual orientation qualities and recognize as a different, third sex.

3. Bigender — Someone who is bigender distinguishes as male and female at various times. While an androgyne has a solitary sex mixing male and female, a bigender switches between the two.

4. Cis/Cisgender — Cisgender is basically the inverse of transgender (cis-being Latin for “on this side of” versus trans-, “on the opposite side”). Individuals who distinguish as cisgender are guys or females whose sexual orientation adjusts to their introduction to the world sex.

5. Female to Male/FTM — Someone who is transitioning from female to male, either physically (transsexual) or as far as sex personality.

6. Sex Fluid — Like bigender individuals, the sexual orientation liquid don’t hesitate to express both manly and ladylike attributes at various times.

7. Sex Nonconforming/Variant — This is a general classification for individuals who don’t act or act as indicated by the societal desire for their sex. It incorporates cross-dressers and boyish girls and additionally the transgender.

8. Sex Questioning — This classification is for individuals who are as yet attempting to make sense of where they fit on the tomahawks of sex and sexual orientation.

9. Genderqueer — This is an umbrella term for all nonconforming sexual orientation personalities. The greater part of alternate personalities in this rundown fall into the genderqueer classification.

10. Intersex — This term alludes to a man who was conceived with sexual life structures, organs, or chromosomes that aren’t altogether male or female. Intersex has to a great extent supplanted the expression “bisexual” for people.

11. Male to Female/MTF — Someone who is transitioning from male to female, either physically (transsexual) or as far as sexual orientation personality.

12. Not one or the other — You comprehend this one: “I don’t feel like I’m completely male or completely female. ‘Nuff said.”

13. Non-twofold — People who recognize as non-paired negligence the possibility of a male and female division, or even a male-to-female continuum with bisexuality in the center. For them, sexual orientation is an intricate thought that may fit better on a three-dimensional graph, or a multidimensional web.

14. Other — Like “neither one of the thesis,” is quite clear as crystal. It can cover everything from “I’d favor not to determine how I don’t fit in the sex polarity” to “My sexual orientation is none of your damn business, Facebook.”

15. Pangender — Pangender is like bisexuality, in that the individual recognizes as a third sexual orientation with some mix of both male and female angles, however it’s somewhat more liquid. It can likewise be utilized as a comprehensive term to imply “all sexual orientations.”

16. Trans/Transgender — Transgender is a general classification that envelops individuals who feel their sexual orientation is unique in relation to their introduction to the world sex—now and again known as sex dysphoria. They could conceivably decide to physically move from their introduction to the world sex to their accomplished sexual orientation.

17. Transsexual — Transsexual alludes to transgender individuals who ostensibly recognize as their accomplished sexual orientation as opposed to their introduction to the world sex. Numerous, however not all, transsexuals are transitioning (or have transitioned) from male to female or female to male through hormone treatment as well as sex reassignment surgery.

18. Two-spirit — This term alludes to sexual orientation variation Native Americans. In more than 150 Native American tribes, individuals with “two spirits”— a term authored in the 1990s to supplant the expression “berdache”— were a piece of a generally acknowledged, frequently regarded, classification of sexual orientation vague men and ladies.