Male and Female are not the only options users can chose from any longer on the social media giant, Facebook. The mega enterprise now added a "custom" choice to the gender option menu.

The change will now allow people to distinguish themselves with words like androgynous, bi-gender, intersex, gender fluid, or transsexual. The user can choose whether or not to keep that information private.

The move by Facebook came after years of petitioning from users, some who started Facebook pages to petition for the change. Google+ offers male, female and "other" as choices, but transgender advocates said Facebook's many specific options puts the platform well ahead of any other online community. About 1 percent of Google+ users identify as other.

Facebook said the changes initially cover the company's 159 million monthly users in the U.S. The site on total has 1.15 billion active monthly users around world.

Some were less than thrilled with the new of the new option.

"Of course Facebook is entitled to manage its wildly popular site as it sees fit, but here is the bottom line: It's impossible to deny the biological reality that humanity is divided into two halves - male and female," Jeff Johnston, an issues analyst for Focus on the Family, said. Adding,"Those petitioning for the change insist that there are an infinite number of genders, but just saying it doesn't make it so." He continued saying, "That said, we have a great deal of compassion for those who reject their biological sex and believe they are the opposite sex."

An irate user commented on the development saying, "There are only two choices, male or female..What is the problem now? What if someone wants to claim to be a parrot, or a dog or a cat? Do we make laws for that also?"

After reporting the story of the Facebook gender option, "Fox and Friends" host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, threw to the network's Clayton Morris, who she called "the male." 

In the past decade, the transgender movement has been demanding the kind of civil rights and respect pursued by gay activists. During this time, the transgender support has been growing well beyond people who have had sex changes. There are now a wide variety of gender identities.