Ariel Hawkins denounces that Tinder deleted her account after editing her profile and identifying herself as a "pre-transition trans woman"
GAYLES.TV, - «I do not think that tinder understand trans people" Explain Ariel Hawkins, a transgender woman of Portland (Oregon) You just sued the dating app for discrimination. Shortly after editing your profile and identifying yourself as «Trans woman pre-transition«, He received an email claiming that his account had been closed because he had violated the terms and conditions of the account. Without specifying what rule had been broken.
«I just wanted to find love like everyone else. I was looking for an appointment and trying to find a boyfriend" Explain Ariel. He also says that something like this has never happened in other applications to link.
The spokesman for Tinder has declared The Independent «We will not comment on the pending litigation, but we can affirm categorically that we do not ban users of tinder for his gender identity. In tinder We believe that gender is not binary and we support the inclusion and acceptance of all people, that is why we offer more than 37 gender identity options for our users in the United States.«.
The circumstance occurs that in 2016 tinder launched a campaign under the hashtag #AllTypesAllSwipes starring Munroe Bergdorf, the producer of Transparent Zackary Drucker and actress Trace Lysette. With #AllTypesAllSwipes The company intended to promote inclusion in the application. The binarism was finished and the possible gender choices were extended to 37.
In Spain the deployment was in 2017 with #OrgulloTinder, the inclusive update arrived in time for the World Pride.
Sources: Independent, Vice
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