Another casually offensive and dumb decision from Livejournal

Currently, when you create a Livejournal account, you are given the option of choosing a gender (of which the choices are "male" and "female"). If you would prefer not to declare one of those choices, you can leave it unspecified.

Not any more, if this is correct:

ETA: Livejournal is running at full speed away from this change. Yay!

* 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.)

If this pisses you off as much as it pisses me off, go to Edit Profile and select Unspecified for your gender option. Then, go to http://www.livejournal.com/contact/?dept=feedback and politely register your displeasure. (The people who read and process Feedback are not the people who make the decisions. They are often the people who are yelling internally about the decisions.)

(This will likely take place at the next code push, which given LJ's history will be either this Thursday or next, so spread the word fast, especially to the genderqueer community. After that point, you will no longer be able to pick "Unspecified" as your gender.)

I am now remaining Unspecified.

( What I wrote them )