[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #42900: Add gender field to user profile for use in translations

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#42900: Add gender field to user profile for use in translations
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 Reporter:  yoavf                     |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement               |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  I18N                      |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by johnbillion):

 Replying to [comment:5 joostdevalk]:
 Thanks for the feedback, Joost. The proposal is to make this an optional
 field that allows users to specify their preferred pronoun in order to fix
 grammatically incorrect translations that exist currently for many
 gendered phrases. This is particularly important for female users in many
 languages which default to using the male form of phrases such as user
 role names, and basically any phrase which references the user.
 (''Aside'': There are significantly more gendered phrases than I thought
 there would be. At WCUS we identified at least eight on the dashboard
 screen alone.)

 The gender field won't be required when creating or editing a user
 account.

 Can you expand on your privacy concerns? Legislation such as the GDPR
 doesn't dictate what data should or shouldn't be collected, only how it's
 protected and made manageable by the user. These points apply regardless
 of whether or not a user gender field is introduced.

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