Mr. and Ms

**Domina** · 13 Jul 2010, 03:23 AM

This may not even be possible, but I thought I'd ask.

I'm about to go live, and my room mate, who teaches womens and gender studies at the local University was looking around the cart to see if she spotted anything amiss. She thinks that the cart should not require you to select Mr. or Ms, and that emails should be addressed to "first name/last name" not Mr. Last name.

Thinking about it, she's right. I have a couple of friends who are "genderqueer" meaning they don't consider themselves to be male or female. (Yes, I know, but they have a right to be themselves.) One even prefers to be referred to as "it."

I think this is going to become a problem for more and more people in the future between genderqueer, trans, and intersexed people, and so if it's not possible to fix it now, could personal titles be optional (or could we have more choices?) in the future? I'm not really sure what the "more choices" might be, but maybe a write in, if we have to have titles at all.

Thank you.

**Kenichi** · 13 Jul 2010, 04:37 AM

In your admin, Configuration>Customer Details

You can choose what you want from customers. You should also turn of birthday unless you sell things that require a minimum age.

**stevesh** · 13 Jul 2010, 10:31 AM

Just turn the salutation off. I do that on every Zencart site I build. Version 2.0 will have more options and the ability to create your own (though I don't know what you'd come up with for 'genderqueer').

I'd agree about the DOB field. I turn it off on every site, too. Even if you're selling adult items, visitors can just lie about their ages anyway.

**Domina** · 13 Jul 2010, 06:22 PM

Thanks. I had the birthday turned off. I just missed that email salutation thing, and I had looked at it.

Thank you all. We're going live today.

**eVelt** · 13 Jul 2010, 06:52 PM

can I download and test 2.0

**schoolboy** · 13 Jul 2010, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by eVelt

can I download and test 2.0

There's no beta version yet.

I built a site a few years ago that had products aimed at the g a y community, and (as has been suggested) we just turned off the Mr Ms function.