Gender Identity Field

Schools can record a student's gender identity separately from their gender. The Gender Identity field appears on the student's basic details and on the enrolment form, directly below the standard Gender field, and is stored as its own value against the student. The field must be enabled for your school — contact support if you cannot see it.

Schools can record a student's gender identity separately from their gender. The Gender Identity field appears on the student's basic details and on the enrolment form, directly below the standard Gender field, and is stored as its own value against the student. The field must be enabled for your school — contact support if you cannot see it.

Recording gender identity

1. Open the student's basic details (or the enrolment form when enrolling a new student).
2. Below the Gender: dropdown you will see a Gender Identity: dropdown.
3. Select the appropriate value and save the student's details as usual.

Screenshot: Gender and Gender Identity dropdowns on the student basic details form

Available values

The Gender Identity dropdown uses a standard list of values:

How it relates to the Gender field

• Gender and Gender Identity are stored separately — setting one does not overwrite the other.
• If a student has a Gender recorded but no Gender Identity yet, the form pre-fills Gender Identity to match (Male or Female). Changing the Gender dropdown updates the suggested Gender Identity, and you can then change it to any value before saving.

Where the value is used

Once recorded, the student's gender identity is available in other parts of edge, including mail-merge substitutions, student profile and biography information exposed through the API, and student identifier displays (including in the caregiver portal).

Notes

• If the feature is later turned off for your school, the field is hidden and gender identity values are no longer saved from the form.