Jorge Godoy wrote:
"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Yes, but further I don't know of any country that recognizes anything
but Male or Female.
I haven't read the beginning of the thread, but will this table be used only
for humans? There are animals that are hermafrodites (I hope I got the
English correct...) or whose sex is only identifiable after a period of time
(days or months, usually).
So, for researchers it would be interesting to have more options.
Also, if you're doing statistics on something where the sexual option (and
transgerderness) is important, then there should be some way to point that.
Some people argue that gender is a spectrum. If you want to be very
inclusive. Maybe you could use a 'float' and stick with 0 = woman, 1 =
man (self documenting after all) with the option of '0.1 - 0.9' for
people who feel "in between". How efficient is 'float'? This would also
work for animals that fall outside then normal male/female designation.
Madi
