将文本字段更改为选择和默认值

I have found a piece of code in our website that I would like to change.

We would like our gender field to be a select option and default it a value from a users profile and then provide them the option of Male/Female.

Any advice on how I could change the below code to a select?

<label for="dbem_gender"><?php _e('Gender','buddypress');?></label>
<input type="text" name="dbem_gender" id="dbem_gender" value="<?php echo get_user_meta($user_id,'dbem_gender',true); ?>" class="settings-input" <?php bp_form_field_attributes( 'gender' ); ?> >

<select id="dbem_gender" name="dbem_gender">
<option <?php if (echo get_user_meta($user_id,'dbem_gender',true) == "Male" ) echo 'selected' ; ?> value="1">Male</option>
<option <?php if (echo get_user_meta($user_id,'dbem_gender',true) == "Female" ) echo 'selected' ; ?> value="2">Female</option>
</select>

I think you are looking for something like this.