| From: | Berend Tober <btober(at)seaworthysys(dot)com> |
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| Subject: | Re: Male/female |
| Date: | 2006-12-08 17:17:47 |
| Message-ID: | 45799E3B.6050409@seaworthysys.com |
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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.
>
"Unspecified"
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