Sex gender pattern

[Sallytolson]

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[daniel-ac-martin]

This seems fine from a technical perspective.

I wonder if it's helpful to be explicit about when 'other' is a valid option or not. (Perhaps with a second example.) The text covers this though.

I also wonder if it's worth pointing out that due to low cardinality, it's often not very helpful to ask for sex as it doesn't narrow down a set of search results as much as other information would, for example.

[daniel-ac-martin]

Oh just noticed...

Are we linking to the correct GitHub discussion at the bottom of the page?

[tomyems]

I wonder if we should include a 'Writing for this pattern' section for this page, to perhaps help designers:

• understand the purpose behind the 'why we ask this question' text, and so help them write it
• ask this question when the type of travel document is known, such as it has to be a passport

We should link back to the sex and gender discussion (#347) in the 'help us improve this pattern'.

The content and pattern looks good. Couple of quick questions, how important is 'their' in the title, does it work without it? In the headings I wondered what you thought about 'ask' rather than 'asking'?

I've got a few suggestions for improving the menu on the left-hand side too, which we can try at the same time. :)

[Sarraounia]

I wonder if we should include a 'Writing for this pattern' section for this page, to perhaps help designers:

• understand the purpose behind the 'why we ask this question' text, and so help them write it
• ask this question when the type of travel document is known, such as it has to be a passport

We should link back to the sex and gender discussion (#347) in the 'help us improve this pattern'.

The content and pattern looks good. Couple of quick questions, how important is 'their' in the title, does it work without it? In the headings I wondered what you thought about 'ask' rather than 'asking'?

I've got a few suggestions for improving the menu on the left-hand side too, which we can try at the same time. :)

Thanks so much for your comments @tomyems. Have made some immediate changes based on your suggestions, which @Sallytolson will update in the prototype.

I've written some content for a new 'Writing for this pattern' section in answer to your first bullet point about the purpose behind the 'why we ask this question' text. However, I'm not sure what you meant by: 'ask this question when the type of travel document is known, such as it has to be a passport.' Do you have suggestions for what the content would be?

Agreed, I've changed it to 'ask' rather than 'asking.' Not sure about removing 'their' from the title. I think it could be misconstrued or read in an odd way. I'm not sure it works without, but happy to discuss.

Looking forward to your hearing your suggestions re. the left-hand menu.

[tomyems]

I wondered about something like this, to closer align with the GOV.UK design system patterns?

Ah apologies, the other question wasn't very clear ... if by the time you're asking for sex, you know that they have a passport (because you've previously asked what kind of travel document do they have, or from context), would you suggest either:

• asking 'What is your sex on your passport?' and removing the hint text
• simplifying the hint text to 'This is the sex that is on your passport'

Happy to ignore this, or add it to the further research if we're not sure yet :)

[tomyems]

Link to test version: https://64b163bce12a1529c427d37c--hods.netlify.app/patterns/ask-sex-or-gender

[tomyems]

Updated menu: https://64b7d78a12755d056eba37c0--hods.netlify.app/patterns/ask-sex-or-gender

[tomyems]

With services described rather than named: https://64b94899fbb1810f7256c143--hods.netlify.app/patterns/ask-sex-or-gender

[daniel-ac-martin]

Note: Please squash these commits.