Gender Dropdown Backend Hack

<!-- hello sir, Sanjay Agarwal here to teach you westerners how to add gender options to your existing webpage without updating your backend or database --> <label for="gender">Choose a Gender:</label> <select id="gender"> <option value="male">Male</option> <option value="female">Female</option> <option value="male">Trans Female</option> <option value="female">Trans Male</option> <option value="male">Other</option> </select> <!-- thank you sir, come again -->

A screenshot of HTML code showing a gender dropdown with several options, but the underlying values are incorrectly assigned and swapped. The joke is that many new gender choices can supposedly be added without changing the backend or database, while the code quietly mislabels the submitted values. It is shared as a programming meme about quick hacks and flawed implementations.

• @ithueti / 5518 2022-01-23