And because all of this is tiring, I forgot to crosspost these links here...

[elke_tanzer]

Google has officially announced: "Starting this week, you'll be able to set the privacy setting of your gender on the Google+ profile, just as you control other information about yourself."

Videoblog announcement from Frances Haugen: https://plus.google.com/106792630639449031994/posts/5kt9TpEb77m

Videoblog with transcript from Liz Fong: https://plus.google.com/106912596786226524817/posts/KCUbRMKQ7VP