Improving gender identity of the autocomplete attribute

[aloisdg]

What problem are you trying to solve?

I would like to improve the autocomplete attribute by adding some things.

First I would like to add a token to the list of the autofill field names. This token is "pronoun". We could write an heuristic to get one from "sex" but this is a lot of work for a clunky and error-prone solution. Letting the user autodetermine themselves is far easier.

Field name	Meaning	Canonical Format	Canonical Format Example	Control group
"sex"	Gender identity (e.g. Female, Fa'afafine)	Free-form text, no newlines	Male	Text
"pronouns"	Pronouns (e.g. he/him, she/her, they/them)	Free-form text, no newlines	he/him	Text

Speaking about sex and gender and gender-identity. This is different things, so I think we should split them.

Field name	Meaning	Canonical Format	Canonical Format Example	Control group
"sex"	Sex (e.g. Female, Male, Intersex)	Free-form text, no newlines	Male	Text
"pronouns"	Pronouns (e.g. he/him, she/her, they/them)	Free-form text, no newlines	he/him	Text
"gender"	Gender identity (e.g. Female, Fa'afafine)	Free-form text, no newlines	Male	Text

I would be fine by just replacing "sex" with "gender", but we may want to keep it for legacy purpose.

We could also add "Sexual orientation" or "Sexual identity".

Note that there is already a issue about the sex-gender distinction (#9600) but OP asked for a dropdown while I think it should be for a plain text input.

More information on Wikipedia about this subject :

• Pronoun
• Sex–gender distinction
• Gender identity
• Sexual identity
• Sexual orientation

What solutions exist today?

Mostly relying on sex and have a empty field for pronouns without autocomplete. The full list can be seen on the spec

How would you solve it?

Extend the spec

Anything else?

Thank you for already having label about gender identity even if it is called "sex". Thank you for already working about common issue about gender like #407