I know folks can RP whatever way they'd like, but I think it'd be nice if, when signing up ( / after a character transitions, potentially) if there was a nonbinary option available. Which is a v small thing, but sometimes I can get a little confused when RPing with a character and then see in their profile that a different gender symbol is listed as their gender.

A thing that our non-binary folks do is they place their preferred pronouns in their profile or they mark their posts with their preference. Gender being a spectrum, even non-binary fails to encompass that portion of the player population unfortunately considering we have gender fluid to consider as well. The male and female aspect of the site is merely based on genetics, not on identity. This suggestion has been brought up before and unfortunately we have not found a suitable means of creating additional options because the male and female designation is used to give dorm access unless we make a third dorm for non-binary players segregating them from the community (which is not something we would want to do since we really try hard to be inclusive). The other options would be to exclude non-binary players from dorms, giving them less (which would be unfair). Another would be to give them access to both, however that would be an advantage and brings up issues of fairness. The final option would be to allow them to pick and choose, meaning that they can change their designation at will. this would be a burden to moderate and again grant a distinctive advantage to a singular portion of the player base that can change their accesses ad lib. For this reason, we have stuck with gender being based on biology rather than identity in terms of what shows up for you.

We would need a lot more discussion on how to make additional options possible in a fair way.

Hi, I just want to step in with an idea.

I completely understand and have read all above messages, and wanted to make an input.

As said, it is a matter of coding to make more gender buttons when signing up, and I completely understand the amount of time it takes. I wanted to say that if it is coded, maybe instead of having a third dorm (which wouldn’t be very good), non-binary students could choose which dorm they wanted?