Re: Male/female

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 11:13:03AM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> 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

This read, "Intersexed"

> Trans (MTF)
> Trans (FTM)
> Neuter
>
> and... I can't think of a seventh possibility.

"Decline to state"

Cheers,
D
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