Profiles - Gender

This really isn't the thread for this. I just wanted options. Please take discussion of gender versus sex elsewhere.

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I feel like adding more options for a "gender" button would be best. Trying to efficiently cover as many bases as possible without getting super specific, however, might be an issue. I would leave it at a "Gender" selection or dropdown of "male, female, agender, genderfluid, other" at first, and leave additional ones open to suggestion.

Changing it to "sex" would be very problematic for a number of reasons that the Temple shouldn't really screw with at the moment.

Edan I get what you're saying. The reason I keep talking about sex vs gender though is because what was the gender option is now the sex option. They mean two entirely different things and serve two entirely different purposes. Which is why I keep saying it needs to be left as gender... And yes, more options should be added.

If gender was changed to sex purely because of ease of editing, then that's wrong. It's (typically speaking) very easy to update drop downs to add more options or change them to text box options all together. But gender should not have been changed to sex. That's not the purpose that box serves.... That box serves to tell us how to address one another. Not what anatomical parts we each have.

Edan wrote: This really isn't the thread for this. I just wanted options. Please take discussion of gender versus sex elsewhere.

Im sorry you feel that "this isn't the place for it...

It is....

An idea was brought forth, and its playing out....

People get upset when the "playing out" doesn't go as planned, but, like life, little goes exactly.as planned...

I speak as a person, not a knight, or Councillor, ...

I.like gender....

Gender, is a personal identifier... and I think it should say "gender" or simply remove the option,period...

just change it to Gender and be done with it

Firewolf wrote: just change it to Gender and be done with it

You mean change it back to the way it was this morning before someone changed it. . .

This thread wasn't ever calling for changing gender to sex or sex to gender.

Rather Edan had pointed out that this particular profile entry only had two options, male or female, and considering that gender is more complex than black or white, she was asking if it would be possible to either add additional options, or as some even suggested, changing it from a drop-down menu to a text box fill in.

If you ask me, the easiest (and fastest/most efficient/best) option would be to label it as gender and make it a fill in text box, that way each person can put whatever works best for them and no single person is left trying to identify all the possible gender options out there.