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More gender icons

Forum-Index Suggestions Rejected More gender icons
NovaSin
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Posted: Fri, 22/07/2016 21:38 (8 Years ago)
Disclaimer : I'm not good at explaining things! Please ask if something's unclear!

So... Basically , I think Pokeheroes needs some more gender icons than just male and female. I mean , it's great that you can change them , especially nice for transgenders , but on the other hand , if you don't identify as male or female , or identify as both ( Agender , bigender , non-binary etc. ) it kinda sucks to have people use male/female pronouns due to the gender icon next to your name.

So my suggestion is to have some more gender icons on Pokeheroes.

And there is a suggestion for hiding your gender , which can be found here :
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Make sure to vote on that one too!

Edit : If you vote against , please explain why.
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Posted: Mon, 01/08/2016 18:09 (8 Years ago)
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The_Grookster
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Posted: Mon, 01/08/2016 20:52 (8 Years ago)
i apologise, but i think that this may cause alot of controversy or anger. I am not apposed to the idea tho.
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Posted: Mon, 01/08/2016 22:57 (8 Years ago)
Grubbinz, Im not sure how allowing more preferences to the players would cause controversy or anger.

I mean, Ive saw just two homophics, but one stopped and the other one doesnt do all that drama.
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Posted: Mon, 01/08/2016 23:03 (8 Years ago)
to Teius, Idk how many homophobes are on this site, but I have seen alot of people who get overly angry when more genders are talked about
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Posted: Mon, 01/08/2016 23:08 (8 Years ago)
If someone does that, theyre just being idiots tbh. They have to accept all genders if they are on the society.
The_Grookster
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Posted: Mon, 01/08/2016 23:09 (8 Years ago)
i guess you are right, i am changing my vote, I now support this
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Alive
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Posted: Tue, 02/08/2016 00:14 (8 Years ago)
Quote from teiusThey have to accept all genders if they are on the society.

With all the respect, but there are ONLY two genders according to human being: male OR female.
Personally, I'm neutral in this topic. Maybe a new gender type: genderless really should be included as we're talking about Pokémon world.
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Posted: Wed, 03/08/2016 02:06 (8 Years ago)
I agree with Alive. I'll support if genderless is the suggestion.
The_Grookster
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Posted: Wed, 03/08/2016 04:22 (8 Years ago)
i agree with Alive, but i really didnt want to start an arguement
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Posted: Wed, 03/08/2016 08:02 (8 Years ago)
Well well well. I don't support this for a few reasons. (I'm not a homophobic. You should always judge people on what they are like and who they are, not what they are) Anyway's here's why I disagree.

1.Earlier on in this thread teius stated "Grubbinz, Im not sure how allowing more preferences to the players would cause controversy or anger." Then there was a mini-argument about it. This show's that some people on the site may be upset about it & maybe protest/argue. I'm pretty sure Riako doesn't want big fightup on the site...

2.Other sites, do not have these icons. They have male,female and other/genderless. In the first post this was stated. " it kinda sucks to have people use male/female pronouns due to the gender icon next to your name." If you are a tomboy and don't wanna be called girl/gal/lass etc., then put your gender as male.

3.This is not meant to offend anyone but seriously, if we go by science you are either male or female. If you have a sex change, just put down that you are (whatever you had your sex changed to). We were not born on this planet as agender,bigender or non-binary, we were born as male or female.

Thank you for listening to my point of view.


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Posted: Wed, 03/08/2016 10:22 (8 Years ago)
@ConnorR

I agree to your last argument, but you should see it the way they feel, not what they are. If you neither feel as male nor female, you should have the option "genderless" to let others know about it.
I personally am and feel like a female, but I know some people that don't feel like a girl or boy, and they hate being called a girl/boy.

However, I support this idea, you should have at least the option to be known as "genderless" or have the option to hide your gender.
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Posted: Wed, 03/08/2016 10:28 (8 Years ago)
Honestly, the genderless ones is enough but this has been suggested already quite a few times

also...more gender icons...like on furvilla...?
NovaSin
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Posted: Wed, 03/08/2016 10:34 (8 Years ago)
@Akiruru
Yes , like on Furvilla. And the way the arguments are heading on this post , I think we should already be lucky if there's gonna be a 'hide' or 'other' option.
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Posted: Wed, 03/08/2016 11:15 (8 Years ago)
[color=white]As I said earlier, I don't support having all the other buttons e.g biosexual, transgender as it will cause a lot of controversy BUT I do support having an other/genderless button.
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Posted: Wed, 24/08/2016 16:23 (8 Years ago)
I agree with hiding the gender, or having Genderless. Not having a million other options. I think it would just cause bullies to go after that one person if they have a transgender sign. It would just cause more problems than necessary if there were more than Male, Female or Genderless signs. This is why I agree with HIDDING your gender, but NOT having more gender options.
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Posted: Sat, 03/09/2016 23:29 (8 Years ago)
personally, i don't think a ton of other options are necessary. i usually refrain from posting on these types of threads, but i believe that should be an option rather than multiple others.
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Posted: Sun, 04/09/2016 06:29 (8 Years ago)
I didn't want to post at first since I already voted on the poll but I have to say something.

@ConnorR
Number 3 of your first post. There actually exist a third group of people that does not fit in the binary of male or female. Intersex people, or hermaphrodites, though the latter is an outdated label since the former is more of an umbrella term. They have different chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones and genitals that doesn't allow them to be classified as the society standard of the binary male or female. They can identify as whatever they feel like, male, female or anything under the nonbinary spectrum. It's considered a taboo to most/some and if they reveal this to the public they would be called a 'freak' so it's not really suprising some people aren't aware unless they truly care or learned about it.

As for the suggestion itself, if not a bunch of symbols are going to be added, atleast the neutral one that is usually used on genderless Pokèmons would suffice. PokèHeroes is about adopt and collecting not being a second tumblr but with young kids that probably isn't even aware of the subject.
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Posted: Mon, 05/09/2016 05:16 (8 Years ago)
This seriously needs to happen. I wouldn't use it personally but I know a lot of people who would love this.

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Posted: Mon, 05/09/2016 06:23 (8 Years ago)
As far as I remember, this has been suggested about a year and go and rejected, due to Riako not being able to code a third option.
Though if I were to put out my opinion on this, I'd have to say no support.
I'm sorry, but we were all born either as a female, or a male. And it's personally best to leave it at that. This definitely would cause potential arguments, and I know this for a fact.
On a side note, there are a lot of children here on PH, and all those other gender icons are bound to start confusing then, or give them wrong thoughts etc.

I would agree to something like HIDING your gender. The same way we have the option to hide signatures, but definitely no other icons.
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