I'm making a Views Plugin, a 'format type', and when I use CiviCRM Contact Gender as a field, it returns a Gender ID. That's to be expected. But when I use the other Views formats (HTML, grid, etc) it shows the actual gender.
Does anyone know why it is changing it to male, female etc on the standard ones, but leaving it as an ID on my new format?
Thanks,
Update - to be clear I understand that this is stored in the contact table as an ID that is looked up elsewhere. My question is - does anyone know how it's being looked up in the options table by standard views plugins, but not by mine?