And I, as a front end developer, have to put all of those on this drop down list.
Gender:
- Male
- Female
- Other
- None
- False
- Undefined
- Null
- Nil
- [Object object]
- 🚹 (The gender formerly known as male.)
- November
- 98°
- Yes, please
[ Click here if you are a conservative and only wish to see male/female ]
In all seriousness though, this is what I did for my contact app (it’s a combobox, so you can type whatever you want in there or pick from the dropdown):
Tbh gender setting should be like a color picker for rbg
This does limit the amount of genders to 1,073,741,824 if using 30bit rbg, but I’m willing to accept that compromise until someone lists more
Ruth Bader Ginsburg only made it to 87, I don’t think you need to go up to 30 bits for that.
What about a free text field or just don’t ask people about their gender?
Sometimes you have to ask for it. E.g. I work in the life insurance business and we need to know the gender for policy calculation.
Ok, but isn’t that just to make vague generalizations about someone based on their gender?
Gender
⚫ Female
⚫ Male
🔘 Gliese 436 b
But on a more serious note, if you actually need to know the user’s gender, a perfectly good set of options could be eg.
- female
- male
- other
- would rather not say
