Is the selection of gender really necessary when signin up?

[Berniebern]

So when sitting in a class in interaction design i realized one thing, the spotify app has only three gender options at sign-up!

Your app has only 3 gender options, these being male, female and non-binary.

With all due respect to your UX designers and researchers I honestly believe this is not sufficient. There are multiple artists on spotify who do not identify as non-binary as well as a male or female.

My question is then: is it really necessary to have this requirement when you sign up? I understand that you're probably doing analyses based on these gender categories, but we're in 2022 and equitable and completely inclusive design should be the basis of any large app and service/product today.

If removing the gender section is not possible for any reason, please consider adding a range of other genders, for inspiration check out the gender selection section in the dating and friend app "bumble" (see photos below).

I'm awaiting your (or someone's) reply to this and hope that you'll consider this when working on the next update of the app!

Best regards,

Bernard V.

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