Pride 2020

Hi all. Just joined and while I’m enjoying the program a lot, I’m very much struggling with the gender component (I’m a nonbinary person). @Laura_Hayes1 - I had the same experience - I chose male because I was too uncomfortable to choose female but I’m definitely not getting accurate data about rides now. It very much seems that the information Zwift is asking for is sex - not gender - which makes the question doubly confusing.

@shooj could you please offer an update as to the state of the conversation at Zwift and what you anticipate could eventually be offered? Thank you!

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How does the avatars gender effect your data? I thought it was all based off of height and weight?

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Hi @Kel_K welcome to Zwift forums
I would like to ask you a clarifying question. Are you asking if you can switch your profile from male to female to see what effect this has on your in-game performance data? If that’s the case - my colleagues can help you with that at Contact Us - Official Zwift Support | Zwift

If you’re asking instead about the progress of the creation of new avatars - we’re working on getting that staffed up, but there’s no ETA on when this might be ready. The problem’s always been a matter of not enough personnel resources, and we’re working to remedy that.

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I know I am really late to this conversation. I just signed up for zwift. But the fact that there are only 2 available genders is really off-putting to me. I would even settle for an other option. Typically, I am gender-non conforming, and don’t really like labels. So for me that would even be enough. We don’t live in a bianary world, and professional sports have got to work on catching up to that.

I get what you are saying but I think it is mainly used for race categories so if you picked “other” then you wouldn’t be able to ride in any of them.

Pick the one that would be the one you’d choose if you were going to be a pro rider.

This is funny, since everything around us event this game is digital witch is binary.

But on a serious note, there was talk that Zwift is getting more inclusive. There should be races for every type of person.