Risto_Saarelma comments on Official Less Wrong Redesign: Call for Suggestions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 21 April 2011 09:25:29AM 0 points [-]

Are there important options beyond beyond male, female and an explicit n/a for the variable, not applicable, not your business etc cases?

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 21 April 2011 02:38:29PM 3 points [-]

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.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 21 April 2011 03:32:21PM *  0 points [-]

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.