Tinder has introduced an update to increase the number of genders on its app under its #AllTypesAllSwipe campaign.

The move follows criticism of the app for being transphobic by only offering male and female options for users.

As part of the new update, Tinder will introduce 37 new gender options for users to identify themselves including ‘Transgender’, ‘Trans woman/man’ and a tailored gender, such as ‘Trans…x’.

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Tinder will make good on its promise to become more inclusive and introduce a number of other genders for users to identify themselves as

TINDER'S GENDER UPDATE In order to update their gender settings, users edit their profile as normal, hitting ‘I Am’ and selecting ‘More’. From here, users can type a word that describes their gender identity or pick a search result which best reflects their identity. All users have the option to display their gender on their profile as well. Advertisement

Reports of a transphobic culture on Tinder emerged earlier this year after a number of trans users had been banned from the platform after being reported as the ‘wrong’ gender.

Tinder founder Sean Rad said at the time that adding a transgender option would be the ‘right thing to do for the world’.

In an official blogpost today, Tinder said: ‘No one will ever be banned from Tinder because of their gender.

'We haven’t had the right tools to serve our diverse community in the past, but that changes today.’

It continues: ‘If you believe you were ever wrongfully removed from Tinder because another user reported you unfairly due to your gender, we want to invite you back to our platform.’

Under the hashtag #AllTypesAllSwipes, Tinder will today roll out more gender options including ‘Transgender’, ‘Trans woman/man’ or even to a tailored gender, such as ‘Trans…x’.

The updates will be rolled out to users in the US, the UK and Canada.

In order to update their gender settings, users edit their profile as normal, hitting ‘I Am’ and selecting ‘More’.

From here, users can type a word that describes their gender identity or pick a search result which best reflects their identity.

All users have the option to display their gender on their profile as well.

In a video released with the update, Rad said: 'We had to invest the time to meet with our users, activists in the community ... to make sure we understand the full breadth of what we have to build a great experience.'

The update has also added new information to educate users.

A spokesperson for UK-based transgender support charity the Beaumont Society told MailOnline: 'The Beaumont Society, which has been supporting the transgender community for over fifty years, finds it is really encouraging that Tinder now recognises that we live in a diverse world where there are multiple gender identities.

'We hope we can look forward to other organisations accepting that the notion of just two genders is simplistic and wrong.'

According to website service checker, Down Detector , Tinder suffered outages yesterday, affecting users in the US, UK and Europe

The Internet did what it does best, ridiculing the situation on social media. Chase James tweeted: 'First Donald Trump wins the election and now Tinder deletes all of my matches? What is this? What did we do to deserve this?'

While the update includes the ability for users to better identify their gender, the search results will still bring back three options: men, women, or both.

Tinder users were left a little lonesome recently, after the platform crashed affecting millions.

Users across the UK, Europe and parts of the US reported issues, including messages not sending, matches being deleted and problems logging in.

The Internet did what it does best, ridiculing the situation on social media.