OkCupid Defines Identity Options to Help Non-binary and Transgender Daters

OkCupid is moreover releasing new in-app questions for LGBTQ users

OkCupid was the first dating app to offer expanded gender and orientation options, and we now offer users 22 genders and 20 orientation options. We’re moreover one of the only non-exclusively LGBTQ dating apps that does not gravity users to select stuff shown in a binary context. Last Pride Month, we remoter expanded our identity options for LGBTQ users, now giving queer daters over 60 identities to segregate from. (And since we know people don’t fit in a single box we indulge you to segregate up to 5 variegated identities!) This Pride Month, we’re excited to share that we have widow new in-app, matching questions defended to our LGBTQ daters virtually the world.

The LGBTQIA polity is not only important to us, it’s important to you. Nearly all (97%) of our daters on OkCupid superintendency well-nigh LGBTQ issues, and 7 in 10 daters say it is important that their match cares well-nigh the LGBTQ community. We moreover found that 97% of nearly 1.5 million people on OkCupid support marriage equality. We have unchangingly believed love is love.

Our new matching questions, widow in honor of Pride Month, help you discover everything from how a match supports the transgender polity to what pride ways to them. These matching questions, withal with all of our other questions well-nigh and for the LGBTQ community, have been answered 30 million times to date.

What we’re asking:

• Do you well-wisher for LGBTQ rights?
• Is it important that your stage cares well-nigh transgender rights?
• Is it OK to silently support the transgender movement?
• Do you think LGBTQ rights are at risk given the current Supreme Court?
• What does Pride midpoint to you?
• How would you prefer to have children?

What you’re saying:

• 74% of OkCupid respondents say they well-wisher for LGBTQ rights, and Gen Z are 7% increasingly likely than Millennials and 21% increasingly likely than Gen X to do so
• About 7 in 10 Gen Zers (67%) and Millennials (64%) say it’s important that their stage cares well-nigh transgender rights
• 98% of non-binary respondents said it’s important that their stage cares well-nigh transgender rights
• 71% of sexuality respondents said it’s important that their stage cares well-nigh transgender rights
• 51% of male respondents said it’s important that their stage cares well-nigh transgender rights
• People who said every voice and vote matters when supporting the transgender movement received 6% increasingly conversations and 11% increasingly Likes than those who finger it’s a personal nomination to silently support the movement
• A majority (71%) of OkCupid respondents in the United States finger LGBTQ rights are at risk given the current Supreme Court, and Millennials are the most concerned generation
• 43% of LGBTQ respondents said Pride ways equal rights for all; 38% said stuff authentically them; and 19% said triumphal everyone
• 57% of gay men would like children, with 31% wanting to adopt, 19% choosing surrogacy 7% considering fostering (while 43% of gay men said they don’t want children)
• 65% of lesbian women would like children, with 42% saying they or their partner would siphon the baby, 21% wanting to prefer and 2% who would opt for surrogacy (while 36% do not want children)

We are moreover updating our gender and orientation pages on our app. After hearing from variegated LGBTQ users, we realized there was an opportunity to educate and inform people well-nigh the variegated identities we offer. Beginning soon, we will be subtracting definitions to each of our gender and orientation options to help people largest understand what these terms mean, and largest serve all our users.

“As we throne into Pride month, OkCupid is ensuring users can increasingly virtuously and authentically be represented on the platform. We know from our work the difference this makes to LGBTQ people,” said Shoshana Goldberg, Ph.D. MPH, Director of the HRC’s Public Education & Research Program. “Kudos to them for their unfurled transferral to getting LGBTQ representation on the platform right.”

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Media contact: MichaelK@OkCupid.com

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