Custom profile fields to display vbphrases to allow language translation

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I'd like to be able to insert $vbphrase[profilefield_male] in one of the options of the custom profile fields I created. I created a custom profile field called "gender", and one of the options is "Male", the other being "Female".

Thus listed in the box of options:
Male
Female

However, I want to replace it with:
$vbphrase[profilefield_male]
$vbphrase[profilefield_female]

However, vBulletin, I am using 3.7, keeps parsing it as a string and listing the text "vbphrase[profilefield_male]" instead of interpreting the phrase and listing the contents of the phrase.

Is there a hack to use phrases in custom profile fields?

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This is very important, can anyone help?