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contacts: add more gender options #9430

Open johndoh opened 2 weeks ago

johndoh commented 2 weeks ago

add non-binary and other to the existing male and female options for the gender field in contacts

pabzm commented 1 week ago

Thank you for the contribution! Would you maybe include another label for "other"? The current value for that string in en_US is capitalized, and other languages might have different words for the gender-specific meaning of "other".

alecpl commented 2 days ago

While "other" is mentioned in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6350.html#section-6.2.7, I don't see "non-binary" there. There is "none or not applicable" which I don't think can be used for the same purpose. So, I'm asking for reasoning about "non-binary" option. It's important to keep it standard-compliant/interoperable.

johndoh commented 2 days ago

I included 'non-binary' because I thought it was an option I have seen other places. I looked at few articles like stack exchang, survey monkey or this.

You raise a great point about the vCard 4 standard. Roundcube currently uses vCard 3 and the custom X-GENDER field. One day Roundcube might update from 3 to 4 so does it make sense to add something which breaks that? I have no problem with only adding 'other' and not 'non-binary'. I agree there is no need for a 'none or not applicable' as the field is not required and can be left blank.

pabzm commented 2 days ago

I think "non-binary" does exist as a self-description of some people in current societies (regardless of it being desired or legal), so I'd like to include it.

Currently with vcard v3 there's no technical reason not to include it, too, because (as @johndoh said) it's a custom field anyway.

RFC6350 for vcard v4 has the mentioned categories for the "sex component" part of the attribute, which has no direct representation of "non-binary", but additionally there's a free-form text part for expressing gender options. It literally includes "GENDER:;it's complicated" as an example, so I suppose "non-binary" could fit in there well.