Suggestion: Gender options

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This forum seems to have a obligatory and exclusive male/female marker. Please immediately correct me on this if I am mistaken!

Within a single minute I could come up with multiple issues with this:

- There are tons of people who identify outside of the gender binary (man-woman). Even more so on the autism spectrum than anywhere else!
- The forum marks gender, but the options are sex. Male/female is biological sex, not gender identidy
- There are not only [fe]male humans, intersex is the third biological sex option
- Some people are not comfortable or simply see no relevance in giving away this medical fact
- It should absolutely be optional, not obligatory
- If you want people to write something about themselves, why don't you let them fill in a blank, like in the biography section? No need to go all Facebook and tweak the site to give us 500 gender identities, that's uncalled for.

This is not politically correct crowd pleasing, the current options simply are incorrect terminology and I would expect fellow compulsively pendantic autistic people to do better. My gender is definitely not "female", my sex is. And why would I want to have this publically displayed? My sex organs are not relevant to anybody on this website, I can guarantee that much

This forum needs to update itself to 2015, not only with this topic, but in many areas.

I have been browsing a bit tonight and it seems that many members are upset with some mechanics or options here and there. Would it be a goliath project to revamp the forum?

I joined recently and I though the options were fine.

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i think there is an option in registration that is to not disclose at all. it doesn't seem to be available anywhere else. you can always elaborate in your signature if you want....

I am wondering where one can even go to update their gender marker on this forum. When I initially signed up, I hadn't yet accepted many things about myself, including my sexuality and gender. So, at the time I registered as male. I would like to get this updated. I tried digging thru the settings from my android phone, couldn't find it, so tried from my Windows tablet. It's like it's only an option at signup. I realize I haven't been active on this forum in a couple years, but may be coming back some.

Easy - just put in your sig line whatever you want other people to know about you.

For example, I could easily have a sig line that says, "Middle-aged gynotropic cis-male in a committed monogamous relationship with an androtropic cis-woman", instead of what I already have.

Try it, it's easy!


Problem solved.

Your signature display seems to be working just fine. So is mine.

You may be looking only for the solution that you want, instead of wanting the solution that you have.

So ... you want Alex to adapt this website to suit you, rather than learn how the website operates and adapt yourself accordingly.

Send him a PM.