Spotify add third gender option to registration form
Well-known on-demand music app Spotify have added a third gender option, non-binary, to their registration form for some countries.
Countries that have three options include the UK, Australia, and the US, and countries that still have only the standard M/F include Canada, Turkey, Germany, France, and the Philippines. If you’re in a different country that we’ve not mentioned, please click through to their sign-up form here and tell us in an ask which country you’re in and how many gender options they offer! We’ll edit this post to give as complete a list as possible.
This follows a support request over 3 years ago for adding more gender options, which received over 300 votes. We found that request and blogged about it, appealing to followers to add their votes and comments, and the request was reviewed by Spotify soon after. In the mean time Spotify were willing to remove the gender information from users’ accounts manually.
If you’re in a country that doesn’t have three gender options available, you can contact Spotify here or on Twitter, @SpotifyCares, to express your support for the move being expanded to more countries. There are Twitter accounts for individual countries too, for which Google or @SpotifyCares can point you in the right direction.
And if you’re in a country that does have a non-binary option now, you can contact Spotify or tweet at them to say thanks!
(Many thanks to @nonbinary for tweeting about this and getting some information about country availability.)
