From: | Madison Kelly <linux(at)alteeve(dot)com> |
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To: | Jorge Godoy <jgodoy(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, John Meyer <john(dot)l(dot)meyer(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Male/female |
Date: | 2006-12-08 17:21:47 |
Message-ID: | 45799F2B.3000105@alteeve.com |
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Jorge Godoy wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> 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
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