Re: 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