On 26 April 2023 you removed the 'Trans Tribe' filter and replaced it with the 'Gender filter.'

I'm an Xtra subscriber and you haven't 'replaced' anything. The 'Trans Tribe' filter is gone and there is no 'gender filter' showing anywhere in my app, so you haven't replaced one with the other, you've removed it and anything resembling it within Grindr Xtra.

I can only assume, therefore, that you've locked it behind the Grindr Unlimited tier and expect us to pay £25.99 per month or £311.88 annually to unlock that core feature - something I refuse to do because it's frankly extortionate. You can get Amazon Prime, Netflix, Paramount+ and Disney+ for a year for that sort of money!

People being unable to find their desired type, following a huge influx of CIS and trans women to Grindr over the last few years, has been a recurring complaint on these suggestions forums and in the Google Play Store reviews for Grindr which, two to three years ago, had a considerably higher rating.

Grindr seems to have decided that, rather than address those concerns and complaints, they would instead capitalise on them.

Space on the grid is very limited. As a gay man, I would routinely use the 'Trans Tribe' filter to filter and then block CIS and trans women, to restrict my grid and who shows up to being exclusively men. I can no longer do that and, despite paying £12.99 for a month of Grindr Xtra, I can't search by gender either because the option is not there, without paying an additional and extortionate £25.99 to upgrade a second time to Grindr Unlimited.

I also have concerns about the business practice of taking a feature that is available as part of the Xtra subscription and then locking it behind a higher tier after people have paid for the lower tier, including the feature you've just restricted behind a higher pay wall. It has a feeling of fraud, like a scam.

A dealership cannot sell an all inclusive, parts and labour warranty on a car for a month and then, one week in, change the terms to exclude the engine. You can't do this either and I am referring it to Google Play.

You need to make the gender filter available to Xtra subscribers or reintroduce the 'Trans Tribe.'

You also previously claimed that the ethnicity filter was racist and offensive and removed it (I don't see a problem with sexual preferences). Following your logic, is the new pay walled gender filter not offensive and sexist and/or transphobic by using exactly the same reasoning, logic and thought processes that resulted in the ethnicity filter being offensive and removed?

If you allow a gender filter, then you concede that sexual preferences do exist. If you concede that sexual preferences do exist, then you concede that on that same basis and by that same logic, people may find certain ethnicities to be more attractive to themselves personally, as a preference (for example I am Caucasian, but I find myself attracted to Middle Eastern/Arab men more than any other group - without excluding anyone - that's just the type I gravitate towards!). I can't help that I'm attracted to darker skin, darker eyes, dark hair and, more often than not, a lot of body hair. It's no different to the way that I cannot help that I am not attracted to CIS or trans women. I'm not sexist because I'm gay.

Ethnicity filters should be reintroduced and at Grindr Xtra level. Gender filters should be lowered to free Grindr level, as they are arguably the most core features that all users need. It's also the feature most likely to be used to gauge the eyes out of a captive audience and it's open to abuse as such.

Today's changes give the impression that Grindr has finally lost the plot and all common sense. It crosses a line that is going to alienate a lot of customers. For years you've pushed the community, testing our limits and resolve by gradually locking more and more features behind pay walls.

That said, this is a step too far and I hope there is appropriate backlash.