Make a gender neutral option for profile sign up

[justFuR]

Instead of choosing from Male/Female I'd like to be able to choose Other in the profile options for gender.

I understand this is used for marketing purposes in the grand scheme of things, but many people don't fit

into the two categories offered.

Thanks.

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[matt_l]

I agree. While this problem doesn't concern me, I do think Spotify should allow people to be gender neutral / other.

[oddbob]

Yeah, this should be a given in 2013.

[quantum5]

I agree. The closer we are to fair and just treatment of everyone, the better.

[Kareth33]

Hate me if you want, but you could simply choose the same as it says on your ID card or driving license?

[quantum5]

I am sure there will be efforts to change that on govt IDs too, Spotify is a lower hanging fruit, and it'll send a powerful message to every spotify user about the company's values. I am sure people who feel themselves fitting in neither category resent being forced into it on Givt IDs as well, but that is a longer and harder struggle.

[Lottiotta]

I am so fully in support of this. I just emailed support about it, in fact. I'm neither male nor female, and I can't complete the form.

>Hate me if you want, but you could simply choose the same as it says on your ID card or driving license?

Not necessarily. Driving licences don't actually have a sex or gender marker on them, not even a title most of the time, and lots of ID cards don't need them because there's a photo on there anyway.

Passports have a sex marker on them, but not everyone has a passport. Our systems are progreammed to accept foreign passports with X instead of M or F on them, and there's parliamentary stuff in the early days of allowing X on British passports too.

Even on GP records it's possible to have "sex not specified". Lots of people aren't one or the other.

Helpful note: sex is what's going on with your body, reproductive organs etc. Gender is how you feel. The word for sex not-just-male-or-female is intersex, and for gender it's nonbinary; nonbinary has many many subsections.

[LaQuishaRedfern]

I totally support a third (or more) gender options.

>Hate me if you want, but you could simply choose the same as it says on your ID card or driving license?

I'm a New Zealand spotify user and:

Transgender people wanting their New Zealand passports to record their preferred gender status can have an X, instead of M or F, in the sex field, even if their birth certificate has not been altered. They must provide a statutory declaration that they live as their preferred gender. Post-operative transsexuals can have the sex in their passports changed to their new sex (M or F, rather than X).

Sex is not shown on a driver’s licence.

[Lottiotta]

I'm just pondering on the marketing thing. Someone who is neither male nor female on the record wouldn't currently be able to have anything advertised at them.

Could a nonbinary person basically declare that they want to be in both categories?

So instead of saying "What's your gender? Male/female" it could say "for the purposes of marketing, would you like us to consider you: Male/female/both?"

Edit: Even Google has an "other" option for gender. 🙂

[Goodman]

I was going to close this, but on second thought this is something I'd like to review further. I'm going to see if I can have an internal discussion and get back to you.