On Wednesday 23 April 2008 14:10, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:38:48PM +0200, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> > Yes. You should/can use ENUM for something like 'gender':
> > male, female, unknown. You don't need to add other values ever (yeah, i
> > skipped some special cases).
>
> I was gonna say ! :-)
>
> Add
>
>  hermaphrodite
>  transgender with female phenotype
>  transgender with male phenotype
>
> and you should be set from current medical science's point
> of view ;-)
>

The standard is unknown, male, female, and n/a. 

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Robert Treat
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