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.