DLE - how to change the dropdown list from the additional field [yes, no]?

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Good day to all, there is such a question on CMS DLE 13.2 (the latest at the moment)
I have an additional field for the news field type: Drop-down list yes, no,
in general, in my template in addnews.tpl I want to change the appearance of the output of this list
specifically, I want to make regular checkboxes instead of a drop-down list,
I know how to select a specific category through the checkbox in addnews.tpl
in this case, if the checkbox is in the checked position, then category 5 will be attached to the news:

<input type="checkbox" name="catlist[]" value="5"> Premium

but I need a little something else, I want to change the drop-down list to checkboxes
, before writing here I searched everything and this is what I managed to find:

<script>
$(function(){
    $(".xfgender option").each(function(i){
        if($(this).prop('value')==$("#gender_val").text()) $(this).prop('selected',true);
    })
})
</script>

<div id="gender_val">[xfinput_gender]</div>
<select name="xfield[gender]" class="xfgender" id="xfield[gender]">
<option value="0">Мужской</option>
<option value="1">Женский</option>
</select>

i created an additional field gender the type of the field the drop-down list was specified
but still nothing worked out for me yes the drop-down list is shown but no matter what I choose the first or second item nothing works
please help