Re: Proposed ISO solution to Male/female

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 04:15:10PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 12/08/06 14:40, Richard Troy wrote:
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> > 0 = unknown
> > 1 = male
> > 2 = female
> > 3 =
> > 4 = female to male transgender
> > 5 = male to female transgender
> > 6 =
> > 7 = hermaphrodite
> > 8 = declined to state
> > 9 = Neuter - Not applicable
> >
> > Hmmm... Easy to write the various functions making this a new
> > datatype...
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> Is TG a biological state or a social state?

It depends. In fact, it depends so much on what kind of thing you're
looking at that I'm pretty sure no single canonical list of genders
can make sense.

Cheers,
D
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