Re: Male/female

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:44, John Meyer wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 03:23:11PM -0000, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> >> Just wondering.....how do list member represent gender when storing
> >> details of people in a database?
> >
> > I usually use a table called gender which has one TEXT column, that
> > being its primary key.  For one client I had, there were seven rows in
> > this table.
>
> Seven genders?  Even San Fransisco thinks that's over the top.

Let's see.

Male
Female
Hermaphrodite
Trans (MTF)
Trans (FTM)
Neuter

and... I can't think of a seventh possibility.