Make gender optional

[hameno]

Description

We're implementing LDAP auth and we don't have genders saved in LDAP. Can we make the gender field optional or allow "other"?
(Also, not trying to start any discussions, but m/w is too limited nowadays anyway ;) )

Acceptance criteria:

Allow other ("o") for gender

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[hameno]

Also, I just noticed the profile has a "Time zone" field, can we set a default or provide it via external auth aswell?

[maximskripnik]

Hey @hameno. Thanks for the feedback!

As far as I remember, genders are optional via external auth. From the readme

gender : string, optional {'f', 'm', 'female', 'male', 'man', 'woman'} - user's gender.

I see your point regarding the 'other' gender though. Some social networks that we used for external authentication only provide two genders, so I figured that it should be good enough for us as well.

Anyway, is optional gender enough for your use case? Or maybe you encountered some issue that in fact makes this field mandatory that I am not aware of. Please provide more details in this case

[hameno]

Haven't actually tried to ommit it, I will try it.
I looked at the code and thought it will throw an exception if its missing.