Improving gender identity of the autocomplete attribute

[aloisdg]

What problem are you trying to solve?

I would like to improve the autocomplete attribute about sex 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	Penis	Text
"gender"	Gender identity (e.g. Cis woman, Fa'afafine)	Free-form text, no newlines	Cis Man	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" and "genitalia" (sex confused a lot of people). For example this would be especially helpful for form on dating apps or medical apps. This last table follow more closely the scientific consensus. We can kept "sex" for legacy purpose or mark it has obsolete or merge sex and genitalia. I am also fine to remove both.

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
"gender"	Gender identity (e.g. Cis woman, Fa'afafine)	Free-form text, no newlines	Cis Man	Text
"sexual-identity"	Sexual identity (e.g. heterosexual, asexual, pansexual)	Free-form text, no newlines	Heterosexual	Text
"genitalia"	Genitalia (e.g. vulva, penis)	Free-form text, no newlines	Penis	Text

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.

This issue is related in a way to #10768

More information on Wikipedia about this subject :

• Sex–gender distinction
• Gender identity
• Sexual identity
• Sexual orientation
• List of Gender Identities

What solutions exist today?

Mostly relying on sex and have a empty text field for any other fields without autocomplete

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

Related links:

• Sex, gender, and pronoun fields in forms
• Designing forms for gender diversity and inclusion
• Trans-inclusive Design
• Example HTML form field for gender-neutral pronoun selection