Gender Options

Apologies if this has been asked before but I couldn't dig it up in searching the site and documentation.

Is there a system table or other area that will allow me to add options to the gender dropdown?

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  • But doesn’t it also raise the question over why you would want to record gender at all, not to mention the inherent problems with guessing at gender?..  Other than a ‘nice to know’ for Development purposes, how would your marketing change?  J 

     

    (this might make a good MKT discussion topic at the conference?)

     

    Cheers,

    Kathleen

     

    From: Tessitura Technical Forum [mailto:forums-technical@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Graeme Ellis
    Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 5:54 AM
    To: Kathleen Smith
    Subject: Re: [Tessitura Technical Forum] Gender Options

     

    Hey Beau,

    The out-of-the-box gender options are still fixed as Male and Female.  We don't use those and instead store gender in a custom attribute where we have more control over the options.

    Grae

  • +1 on having this as a discussion topic at TLCC - in the Education world at First Stage we have long asked for a student's gender, and are now starting to receive forms with "N/A" or "?" marked instead. Diversity & Inclusion seems to be a big topic and something that definitely needs to be embraced in the world of data!

    Patrick Schley
    Academy Services Manager
    First Stage

     

  • Thanks everyone for your feedback on the topic - very interesting discussion!

    BV

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