TMP Dropdown resets its value

I have this dropdown where you select gender, and then one of several characters after that. The gender dropdown works great, but i have set up the character dropdown in an identical manner but it will not work.

When I change the dropdown and click an item, it does not change. I thought this was wierd so I went into the editor and manually changed the value at runtime, it resets back to 0. I have searched through the only script in any way related to this dropdown and nowhere does it have any code that says it should be set to 0, or otherwise mess with the dropdown.value property. Please help.