I'm trying to use show menu to make a gender option, and I've been trying everything for hours, but either I get errors, or when I click an option the options disappear and the game crashes. here's the code I'm using:

msg ("Welcome to The School of Magic Text Adventure. Before you begin Day 2, I have a few questions.")
ShowMenu ("gender_string", Split ("male;female", ";"), false) {
switch (gender_string) {
case (male1) {
msg ("Ah, so a male. Did I ever tell you what I do to males when they--
kidding, kidding. Anyway next question... ")
ChangePOV (male1)
}
case (female2) {
msg ("Female huh, this should spice things up a little. Anyway, next
question...")
ChangePOV (female2)
}
}
}

Try this:

msg ("Welcome to The School of Magic Text Adventure. Before you begin Day 2, I have a few questions.")
ShowMenu ("What is your gender?", Split ("male;female", ";"), false) {
  switch (result) {
    case ("male") {
      msg ("Ah, so a male. Did I ever tell you what I do to males when they--kidding, kidding. Anyway next question... ")
      ChangePOV (male1)
    }
    case ("female") {
      msg ("Female huh, this should spice things up a little. Anyway, next question...")
      ChangePOV (female2)
    }
  }
}

In case you are wondering result is a special value that will get the text the player selects.

Pretty sure I already replied to this; I think the OP accidentally created 2 identical posts or something.