| Summary: | Gender free type box | ||
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| Product: | Koha | Reporter: | Helen Gornall <HelenGornall> |
| Component: | Patrons | Assignee: | Bugs List <koha-bugs> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Testopia <testopia> |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P5 - low | CC: | andrew, flyingendpaper, gmcharlt, kyle.m.hall |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23609 | ||
| Change sponsored?: | --- | Patch complexity: | --- |
| Documentation contact: | Documentation submission: | ||
| Text to go in the release notes: | Version(s) released in: | ||
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Description
Helen Gornall
2024-03-18 08:48:04 UTC
Hi Helen, the gender field is currently a free text field - can you explain a bit more what the difference would be and how the new field would be used? Could a patron attribute do the trick? (In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #1) > Hi Helen, the gender field is currently a free text field - can you explain > a bit more what the difference would be and how the new field would be used? > Could a patron attribute do the trick? The gender field on our user registration form for both staff input and self registration are buttons. Currently, Female, Male, Prefer to Self Describe and Prefer not to say. We would like to provide a box next to these buttons if a customer chooses to self describe and they wish to share how they want to be described Hi Helen, that clears it up - I was thinking of the new pronouns field. Around here, gender terms are, e.g.: Woman Man Non-binary Intersex Two Spirit (And, of course, "Prefer not to say" or just an option to leave blank should be an option.) The terms "male" and "female" are biological, and it's pretty insulting to refer to a woman as "female," since it's biologically reductive. Granted, I haven't seen this option in action--it's not part of our Koha installation, and I'm not seeing it in the ByWater demo when I go to create a new patron. |