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*nods*
The field should be a text box, not a radio button or a dropdown list.
Ideally, I'd like it to be labeled 'pronouns' rather than 'gender', but that might be non-preferred for signaling reasons.
Agree strongly with the signaling concern. Also, it helps prevent smartalecks filling in something like "second person" or worse "first person plural".
'Gender' isn't much better at dealing with smart-alecks or outliers, actually. If I'm in an odd enough mood on the day that's implemented, I might fill in the box with 'yes'. Or 'no'. Or 'blue'. 'Female' doesn't always suit me, and unlike with pronouns there's no obvious non-male non-female answer to that one.
Are there important options beyond beyond male, female and an explicit n/a for the variable, not applicable, not your business etc cases?
I'd add "both", "fluid" or "variable", and "other" for a better shot at completeness, mostly because there are people whose non-binary gender is an important enough part of their identity that "n/a" seems likely to feel dismissive to them.
Better go with the text field then if there's really demand for all those. The base three would pretty much solve the actually manifesting problem of people not knowing which pronoun to use of other people though.