You can add your own gender string by filter hook as following
function user_profile_user_gender($gender){ $gender['new_gender'] = array( 'title'=>__('New gender', USER_PROFILE_TEXTDOMAIN), 'icon'=>'<i class="fa fa-female" aria-hidden="true"></i>', ); return $gender; } add_filter('user_profile_user_gender','user_profile_user_gender');