Scott Marlowe wrote:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Karsten Hilbert
<Karsten.Hilbert@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:38:48PM +0200, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> Yes. You should/can use ENUM for something like 'gender':
> male, female, unknown. You don't need to add other values ever (yeah, i
> skipped some special cases).
I was gonna say ! :-)
Add
hermaphrodite
transgender with female phenotype
transgender with male phenotype
and you should be set from current medical science's point
of view ;-)
Actually, hermaphrodite specifies complete male and female genitalia,
which is impossible in humans. While various forms of address are
available for people born with parts of both male and female
genitalia, the most common and easiest is intersex.
The folks here: http://www.isna.org/faq/ have a lot more to say about
it, and seeing as how many of them ARE intersex, I'd leave it up to
them.
Scott, there's absolutely nothing in that FAQ about their database, let
alone whether or not they use ENUMs.
(heh)
While most transgender folks prefer to be referred to as their assumed
gender, there are some gender queer folks who prefer other forms of
address.
I would put it that gender is not so easily defined, which makes it a
poor choice for enum.
Absolutely true. Which is odd, because this example is trotted out
whenever there's a thread about ENUMs.
