Re: Male/female

From: "Brian J(dot) Erickson" <ericksbr(at)infocon-inc(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Male/female
Date: 2006-12-08 17:36:10
Message-ID: 004c01c71aef$59baf8c0$4700a8c0@p000014
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That not including Genetics,
where and individual could have
multiple X Chromomes individuals
Or be XY - female times those other
6 (or 7).

----- Original Message -----
From: "brian" <brian(at)zijn-digital(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Male/female

> 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
> > Trans (MTF)
> > Trans (FTM)
> > Neuter
> >
> > and... I can't think of a seventh possibility.
> >
>
> As has been pointed out, some governments forbid the collection of
> gender information, so the seventh would be unknown/unreported.
>
> brian
>
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