Via College Fix:

Harvard University’s annual Valentine’s Day computer dating program, Datamatch, will add a “non-binary” gender option this year after students protested that it only allowed participants to identify as “male” or “female.”

The “third gender option” was installed “for matching purposes just like the other two options,” a Datamach developer told the student government at a recent meeting, according to The Harvard Crimson. “We don’t want gender to be a big part of Datamatch at all. We want everyone to be excited about it.”

Last Valentine’s Day, students were only permitted to identify as male or female, though they were “allowed to add comments about their gender identity in a section at the end of the survey designated for ‘extra’ information.”

The inability for Harvard students to identity as non-male or -female on Datamatch caused the Harvard student government to publicly criticize the program, penning “a statement of support with the gender non-conforming and gender queer community.”

The Harvard Computer Society, which runs Datamatch, apologized and penned a response in turn promising “to make sure that Datamatch 2018 includes all identities.”