Allow for male, female, transgender, nonbinary, Other

Thank you, for our program's 325+ clients, this is an absolute necessity to have changed. As new customers, we do not even feel comfortable marketing this new fitness app until it is culturally responsive. We provide curriculum consultations at universities, as well as have published work in journals and presented nationally/regionally. As it stands, this current implementation goes against our own practices.

*HOW YOU IMPLEMENT THIS CHANGE MATTERS.* Please consult with experts, researchers, and community members within this area. Please follow NIH guidelines for SO/GI. Please consult with practitioners and organizers who can guide you on how to ensure inclusivity.

*DO NOT* simply add "Other" along with male/female. This will *not* hit your objective in the effective inclusion of the LGBTQ community. This is considered an outdated practice. Please consult to best meet the needs of this community, while also working within the limitation of design/development. If you are not consulting leaders in this area, you risk the financial/labor resources invested in this feature not returning the results/intended impact.

Please work with the community.

- an Executive Director who is eagerly waiting to market this program to 325+ clients.

LGBTQ+ individuals. I have had a request to update the set up page when a client wants to join and update their details in t the trainerize group. Can we get onboard with this concept. It might help people feel like they have a place in the community and not add to their mental health issues. Rather than being just another generic provider, provide some scope to how people identify as human beings. Appreciate your feedback so I can pass on your comments.

Do we really?

Leave it as is. Keep politics in all its fashion out of this as many features here are sciences based. If someone indicates the *** they “feel” they are, it can mess them over in things like the BMR calculation. For those who are saying things like “I need to know what gender they feel they are ...” then simply communicate with the client and ask them and/or you can edit in a selection criteria for it in your consultation form anyway you chose. That should cover it just fine.

When is this feature or something similar going to be added? I've asked in the Trainerize 7 Beta test page on Facebook and didn't get a reply.

When is this feature going to finally be added? I am going to need to start looking for other solutions if this is not changed or an option to turn it off. Why would I even care about knowing the "***" of everyone who signs up in my app

So, "unspecified" is an option in user's profiles already. It seems to impact nothing. Could this be added as a third option when onboarding? Just allow the user to pick "unspecified" themselves? (And honestly change it to "Neither/Other/Unspecified"). This doesn't even need to be a new change, the ability to have a user profile with no binary gender set exists! Just allow a user to pick it while setting up their profile, not only after confronted with the binary in setup and having to reopen their profile to then change it?

Regardless of the number of votes on this topic this needs to be changed. I also work remotely with many LGBTQ+ individuals due specifically to the lack of inclusion they feel in other fitness facilities. Even if they have never joined on gym many experience situational avoidance due to discriminatory treatment in a completely different setting that ultimately impacts how they interact with the rest of the world around them. This is not really aiding in the message I am trying to send to my clientele and potential clientele who may choose to do trial runs with the app.

124 votes, people. Just change it!

I work with women who have pelvic floor issues. Tummy issues after pregnancy, c section or hysterectomy.
I dont care if they're FTM or non binary. However I do need to know what the pelvic floor structure is down there as they do differ from male and female.

Plus if they've had surgery it may affect function.

I guess it is very niche. What I suggest is keeping sex (not gender) as male/female but adding a box to elaborate on identity if they feel it relevant to divulge. With maybe a way to write in a sentence to qualify why you are asking the question

I work with a lot of Transgender athletes. I need this feature too! For all the rude people who have commented on this previously.... It IS important to know if someone is trans. Their hormone balance will be slightly different. I need to know that in order to help them properly with their nutrition. And for someone who is non-binary, that is still valid because they may be going for a different body look. It starts a conversation that I can have with them about what their goals are and properly determine how to adjust their nutrition properly.

Just have a box that says ‘other’ where they can type what they feel they are. Sex - male/ female is actually useful for starting points for trainers who create diet plans. If you haven’t noticed, men and women are biologically different.. so I’d prefer to know who I’m working with.

Lmao you literally need to know their actual scientific gender in order to determine RMR and MMR. It’s not about what you “think” you are.

It's relevant when it comes to determining RMR-- Leave it, and leave it as "sex," not "gender," since they're two different things.

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I sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of soaring over the oilfields dropping hot sticky loads on disgusting foreigners. People say to me that a person being a helicopter is Impossible and I’m fucking retarded but I don’t care, I’m beautiful. I’m having a plastic surgeon install rotary blades, 30 mm cannons and AMG-114 Hellfire missiles on my body. From now on I want you guys to call me “Apache” and respect my right to kill from above and kill needlessly. If you can’t accept me you’re a heliphobe and need to check your vehicle privilege. Thank you for being so understanding.

The unfortunate thing is gender does play a roll when you are calculating caloric needs so as a trainer I would like to know this information to help with nutrition info,

Just remove the option.

Gender identity is both complicated and simple.
Instead of male/female, how about...
Gender Identity: male/female/fluid/neutral?
Pretty much covers the bases.