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Changing Your Biological Sex

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Your biological sex is an essential metric used by the Kanvie app for calculations related to calories. This concerns both the calculated calorie budget, as well as the energy burned by exercises.

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Updating your biological sex will impact all calorie measurements for your sports activity from past diary entries, as well as your calorie budgets.

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If you are reading this article because you have recently underwent hormone replacement therapy, consider reading our article on Calorie Needs for Transgender Individuals, which dives deeper into this topic.

How to Update Your Biological Sex

Go to the Me 👤 tab in the bottom navigation bar of your Kanvie app
Go to Settings ⚙️
In the Biometric data section, select Biological sex
Select your new biological sex
Tap Save ☑️

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Your biological sex won't be publicly displayed.

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