Participation in endurance sports should be a space that makes everyone feel safe and included – it brings people of all ages, genders, countries, interests, and more together. With this in mind, our goal is for ChronoTrack Live & Athlinks to be as inclusive as your Event demands, doing our part to make sure that all athletes feel welcome to participate. We’ve recently partnered with advocates in the non-binary athletic community to identify best practices for scoring and more to ensure that non-binary athletes feel included. As a result, ChronoTrack Live now supports Non-Binary athletes for Both Registration and Scoring. Read Below to learn how to enable this functionality for your race.
In order for your athlete to be scored as non-binary you will need to import them into ChronoTrack Live and map them to the non-binary gender or manually enter the athlete as non-binary. Once the athlete is added in the system all that is needed is to create a non-binary gender bracket division. Once this is done you are ready to score your race. Step by step instructions for setup can be found below:
Setting up Registration
To create a Non-Binary Gender Registration:
1. Go to the Registration > Choices page in your event
2. Create a new Registration Choice or select an existing one
3. You will now see under Gender Availability the option to add Non-Binary to the Registration Form
4. After clicking save the Non-Binary option will be added, there is no need to release a new form after this change
Once the Registration Choice has been saved the Athlete Registering will see this in the registration form:
Setting up Scoring
In order for your athlete to be scored as Non-Binary you have 2 options:
1. Use CT registration with the Non-Binary feature turned on as instructed above
2. Import the athletes into CT Live and map them to the non-binary gender or manually enter the athlete as non-binary.
Once the athlete is added in the system all that is needed is to create a non-binary gender bracket division using the instructions below.
To create a Non-Binary Gender Bracket:
1. Go to the scoring > bracket page in your event
2. Select “Add Bracket”
3. In the name section of the bracket creation type in Non-Binary and hit enter
4. Select “Activate Changes”
These results are passed on to Athlinks for the athletes consumption. We have updated Athlinks so that the athletes show their gender rank on the Event Results Page as well as passing along the athletes gender in the Individual Results Page.
In the first half of the year we will be working on updating the registration side of our product to fully support collecting non-binary as a gender. If you need this function now don’t hesitate to get in touch with our support team as our current option needs admins to help you set it up.
