Removing Gender Requirement From Registration

[RedBassett]

Greetings annadynamite,

I have previously started a discussion regarding alternate gender option, to the same response. As a result, I unfortunately have some forum members who are uncomfortable with use of the registration form, and for whom, I am looking for other options.

As for adding the custom profile option, this will be a feature once v5 is out. You cannot do it in the current v 4.5 software.

In the mean time, the [codedatabase] has some codes to allow extra gender options. Until ProBoards fixes this or I find another host, I have been using the "add gender options" code by CrAzY_J, with success.

[Ryan Roos]

Here's the direct link to the v4 code.
support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=codedatabase&action=display&n=1&thread=70497

This should also be possible in v5 using Plugins.

[Shentino]

Can you change your gender later?

Not joking, some people actually get sex change operations IRL (I know someone who did so)

[Ryan Roos]

Sept 19, 2012 23:44:49 GMT -8 Shentino said:

Can you change your gender later?

Not joking, some people actually get sex change operations IRL (I know someone who did so)

You've always been able to change your gender and gender settings at will. You can do it now, you can do it in v5.

[AdamKane]

Sept 3, 2012 6:53:31 GMT -8 annadynamite said:

or is there perhaps a way to add "genderqueer" or "non-binary" for those who do not identify as strictly "male" or "female"?

I don't think it should matter what gender you are on a forum. However, your genetics decide which gender you are not you. It's one of those things that you don't get to decide. I know, it's not fair but that's the way life works!

[RedBassett]

Sept 20, 2012 18:02:33 GMT -8 AdamKane said:

Sept 3, 2012 6:53:31 GMT -8 annadynamite said:

or is there perhaps a way to add "genderqueer" or "non-binary" for those who do not identify as strictly "male" or "female"?

I don't think it should matter what gender you are on a forum. However, your genetics decide which gender you are not you. It's one of those things that you don't get to decide. I know, it's not fair but that's the way life works!

The issue isn't that simple. Some people simply don't view themselves as male or female.

[loricta]

Sept 12, 2012 10:22:51 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

Here's the direct link to the v4 code.
support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=codedatabase&action=display&n=1&thread=70497

This should also be possible in v5 using Plugins.

But it won't add more options "on the registration profile". Can you change it to the registration page too?

[RedBassett]

Nov 4, 2012 5:46:30 GMT -8 loricta said:

Sept 12, 2012 10:22:51 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

Here's the direct link to the v4 code.
support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=codedatabase&action=display&n=1&thread=70497

This should also be possible in v5 using Plugins.

But it won't add more options "on the registration profile". Can you change it to the registration page too?

Because the registration page is not on the forum, it can't be changed. ProBoards refuses to change the binary system they are using, however I have successfully changed the gender system after registration on my test forum, so it is possible.

[kytikor]

Sept 20, 2012 18:02:33 GMT -8 AdamKane said:

Sept 3, 2012 6:53:31 GMT -8 annadynamite said:

or is there perhaps a way to add "genderqueer" or "non-binary" for those who do not identify as strictly "male" or "female"?

I don't think it should matter what gender you are on a forum. However, your genetics decide which gender you are not you. It's one of those things that you don't get to decide. I know, it's not fair but that's the way life works!

I'm sorry but who the hell are you to decide this? A neuroscientist? Someone specialising in the study of the brain and gender development perhaps? I highly doubt it. Look at the research that's been done and don't try to enforce your outdated beliefs on others. Believing that your gender identity and genitalia are the same thing has been disproven, just as the ideas that the sun revolves around the earth, and that leeches cure any disease
As someone who seems to have some authority here, don't judge or be a d*ck about other people.

I looked up this as my partner is genderqueer (she doesn't quite identity as female, but doesn't entirely identify as male either, she's somewhere in the middle) and didn't feel comfortable about putting her gender down.

On top of that, what about intersexed people? They may have been assigned x gender at birth but their genetics don't agree with them. They are neither male or female.
What about people who, in the womb, recieve too much of a hormone at the wrong stage and their brain develops female while their body develops female? there IS a difference between the female and male brain, for example that females have about 3 times as many smell receptors, something which is present in transsexual women.

[Patrick [ASE]]

Can we not turn this into an argument about genders, thanks.
Members have their own reasons for not wanting a gender, or wanting alternative genders, it is not our place to judge them here

[RedBassett]

Dec 1, 2012 6:24:17 GMT -8 kytikor said:

Sept 20, 2012 18:02:33 GMT -8 AdamKane said:

I don't think it should matter what gender you are on a forum. However, your genetics decide which gender you are not you. It's one of those things that you don't get to decide. I know, it's not fair but that's the way life works!

I'm sorry but who the hell are you to decide this? A neuroscientist? Someone specialising in the study of the brain and gender development perhaps? I highly doubt it. Look at the research that's been done and don't try to enforce your outdated beliefs on others. Believing that your gender identity and genitalia are the same thing has been disproven, just as the ideas that the sun revolves around the earth, and that leeches cure any disease
As someone who seems to have some authority here, don't judge or be a d*ck about other people.

I looked up this as my partner is genderqueer (she doesn't quite identity as female, but doesn't entirely identify as male either, she's somewhere in the middle) and didn't feel comfortable about putting her gender down.

On top of that, what about intersexed people? They may have been assigned x gender at birth but their genetics don't agree with them. They are neither male or female.
What about people who, in the womb, recieve too much of a hormone at the wrong stage and their brain develops female while their body develops female? there IS a difference between the female and male brain, for example that females have about 3 times as many smell receptors, something which is present in transsexual women.

I fully agree with you on this topic, however given that ProBoards doesn't provide the option, it is possible to customize a specific forum to allow more gender options (though unfortunately not on the registration page).