I feel like labeling people and putting them in groups has been a political tool used in the past. Oh that’s right Nazi Germany, the Spanish Inquisition, the crusades, England under Bloody Mary, segregation, Salem witch trials, the United States civil war, currently in the Middle East and China. Most people believe that everyone has the right to be themselves, but they don’t have the right to invade the space of others. You have the right to practice your religion but you do not have the right to go into some else’s religious building and practice your religion there. Depending inclusion is disrespecting the people Grindr was created for. If you identify as a woman, regardless of your chromosomes are xx, xy, xxy, xxx, xxxy or anything else Grindr was created for gay men, not straight women why do you even want to be on it? The simple fact is if you don’t have the full male anatomy and physiology, meaning it functions including erection and ejaculation you are not physically qualified for certain gay sex acts. It’s not about who you are but what you can do.

Truly, I think this boils down to one thing. The lgbtqia banner is great for politics, and allowing everybody to gain equal rights. Like the equal right to a dating app that actually is my dating pool, and not my political pool.

The lgbtqia banner is a political tool, and shouldn't even be a part of the conversation regarding a same-secks dating app.

And to say WE have other options like scruff etc is hilarious because you all are there too. Get out of our spaces and stay in your lane. Imagine a trans fir trans app and a biological man who likes other biological men joins. You think he will be protected as a minority? Not a chance.

Brandi this app was designed and intended for gay men. But like everything we have you and all your type take it over, barge your way in and ruin it for us. You then claim it was yours to begin with. No it wasn't. You wanna be a woman and you like men? Great go to a straight app like tinder and leave us alone.

Brandi,

Grindr is listed as a gay dating and chat app. There is a bear, twink, daddy, otter filter and yet there is no lesbian or bi or female or queer or mother or non-binary, or third gender or furry or any other label people have tried to create. The filters listed under tribes are directed solo at men like daddy or generic like geek, there are no labels that would only apply to women. So now that we have established Grindr is for guys, the question arises about trans. Well if we are being honest surgery can recreate anatomy but not physiology. How can someone identify as a top when no amount of viagra is going to give them an erection? Surgery can recreate the appearance of a penis but cannot recreate that function which is necessary for sex. Grindr was created as a safe space for gay men who seem to be more likely the victims of hate crimes than lesbians. The Mathew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act is one of the first and only federal laws to protect the rights of anyone in the LGBT community and that part of the law was because of a hate crime against a gay man. Mathew Shepard was killed after Ellen DeGeneres openly came out on tv and then she was given her own talk show. Friends had a lesbian couple on for years before Mathew Shepard was killed. So there is a difference lesbians were being accepted by mainstream media even getting their own tv shows while gay men were still being killed for being gay.

When this app was first created, it was indeed intended for men only. At some point, the developers chose to change this without actually informing their existing user platform. This is why we are annoyed so vehemently. Brandi, there are plenty of apps for you as well, besides Grindr. Also, pretending that grindr is anything more than a hookup app, is very delusional. It's actually not very common to find people who just want to chat, or just be friends. There are a ton of flakes though. And if you were on this app, just to make friends, you were on the wrong type of app to begin with.

It's a matter of privacy, many gay men do not wish to share certain details with members of the opposite gender. I don't like to take my shirt off in front of women, but I would like to include that sort of image in my gay profile. However, I choose to maintain a blank profile, as the current environment on Grindr is not conducive to my personal preferences.

Yes, they need to leave Grindr only for men (regardless of them being gay or bi), it is for being a men app that many of us started using this app. Grindr is known as "men searching for men" app. I don't want any women seeing my profile anymore, I want only MEN seeing my profile and sending me messages. It has been so many trans women profiles that this app has been transformed almost into a women trans app. More women trans profiles means less "men searching for men" profiles visible and less views for my profile (because her profiles take the space of men profiles throwing men profiles to the bottom)

Also; you have plenty of male only options. You have Scruff, Jack’d, Adam4Adam etc. — playing victim like always because you choose to continue to diminish our existence in a community that is supposed to celebrate ALL of the LGBTQ; by your standards; we would also need to have lesbian and non binary people barred from using Grindr; better yet; anyone who is bisexual too since some bisexual men seek women and men together.

Chiming in here because I’m confused. Isn’t this app for LGBTQ? So where did they explicitly say they designed the app for just men and men only? First it’s a separate app; then you will find another thing you aren’t okay with or doesn’t fit with your version of LGBTQ. It’s an app for all walks of life. Stop trying to erase everyone else who isn’t a gay male from the LGBTQ. I said what I said.

Dónde puedo conectar mujeres maduras que sea buena app como grinder?

To everyone who wants to scream discrimination,

Shall we discuss the tv channel WE (women’s entertainment), Victoria Secret, the all female clubs, all female schools and colleges, the nonprofits that are only for females like the ones devoted to ovarian cancer, or the flyers I used to see at the hospital for abused women and children (up to 10 years old) at age 11 if you have a penis they no longer care about you. Shall we add in Women’s studies college majors, I believe there was a women’s interest or however they had it labeled in the book store last time I was in and the magazines targeted at women. Yet somehow wanting an app for gay men to meet gay men is considered discriminatory, how ironic

Agree 100%. This was meant to be an app for GAY MEN to meet. I really am tired of seeing all the "women" when I'm scrolling looking for a guy. It's a definite turn off, and it's overtaking this app and it's not fair.

Raul Torres,

Pot calling the kettle black. Step one before responding read what was written. I said: “sexual intercourse” and yet you responded with comments about “sexual orientation”. It’s apples and oranges. I just watched a documentary about heterosexual men, as they identify, engaging in homosexual sexual intercourse for a job. They are self identifying straight men working in gay porn, some enjoy the physical sensations of the sex but are not attracted to men. That is why I specifically said gay sexual intercourse. If a straight couple uses a strap on it’s not gay sexual intercourse because it is still sexual intercourse between opposite sexes. If you go to the hospital do you ask for sources or do you accept that they have a degree (even though you never see it)? If you want I can pull out the science and medical textbooks and the DSM because I have them, a requirement of the degrees. Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionary defines homosexuality as erotic activity with another of the same sex. Sex is defined as either of the two major forms of individuals that occur in many species and that are distinguished respectively as male or female. Pansexual is not listed. Asexual is lacking sex or functional sexual organs. Transsexual is a long one that comes down to identifying as the opposite sex and undergoing treatment including hormone and surgery to achieve the physical appearance of the desired sex, which implies that one does not go halfway and then stop because then they would still have the physical appearance of their birth sex and desired sex.

Where are your sources? Not that I’m expecting to get an answer to it, because you’re a troll.

Cody, your posts are a masterclass in showcasing unyielding, closed-minded beliefs to the entire internet. Please, continue...your contributions might just propel humanity towards solving some of our deepest societal issues. Especially when people, so certain of their understanding of medical definitions and scientific publications, conveniently forget to source or reference any of it.

I wasn't initially inclined to dignify your simplistic arguments with a response. But if it helps others grasp the complexities of this topic, then I'm all in.

Let’s set the record straight, Cody: sexuality is a spectrum. It’s not the tidy, black-and-white categories you cling to. Reality is intricate, diverse, and far from your outdated, cookie-cutter stereotypes. As you stubbornly defend your rigid views, you’re not just revealing your narrow perspective, but also exposing a vein of deep-rooted discrimination cloaked in pseudo-intellectual language.

Totally agree grindr use to be just men now it seems like translate are taking over

Totally agree. Inclusivity is great until the groups the app was oroginally designed for start to feel wxcluded. For me grimdr is for men to meet men - not women, not trans. Set up a new app

Isn’t it neat how there’s trans only filters, trans only sites, trans all over the old LGB sites—- but lesbians and gay guys are getting the “disappear or hit screeeeeed at by mentally ill people”

It's so ridiculous any more the app is no longer what it once was. I feel stupid for spending the outrageous subscription fee to always end up getting off of Grinder frustrated and angry for having to deal with all the unwanted solicitations and profiles I DO NOT WANT TO PAY TO DEAL WITH. The only thing the creators are obviously concerned with is making money any way possible. The only way they might understand and change anything is if we gays looking for others gay men only, unsubscribe from the app untill it is what it's supposed to be.

Luis,

You seem to be mistaken trans-women don’t have a penis that is why they are women. Generally individuals go through counseling to ensure that if they start the process of transitioning from one sex to another they will complete the process with all the surgeries. Stopping partway through is indicative of a psychological problem, by current medical psychological standards. Scientific and medical definitions would say an individual with secondary sexual characteristics of both sexes would be a hermaphrodite not a man. Considering gay sexual intercourse is defined as intercourse between two people of the same sex, if one person has secondary sexual characteristics of a female and the other has secondary sexual characteristics of a male then it’s not gay sex.

The question for you is if you are only interested in women why would you join an app that is for men who are interested in men? If you like women why would you join an app that only has men on it?

I love trans woman with all my heart but it’s gay sex she has a penis and balls I only like cis women and trans woman I’m sorry i just do it’s gay sex in the end of the day with a trans woman the end