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And I, as a front end developer, have to put all of those on this drop down list.
Gender
⚫ Female
⚫ Male
🔘 Gliese 436 bBut on a more serious note, if you actually need to know the user's gender, a perfectly good set of options could be eg.
- female
- male
- other
- would rather not say
I’m a fan of “male” “female” “‘);DROP TABLE gender;—“ myself
What have things come to that we are now gendering poor little Bobby Tables?
At that point why have it in the first place?
Gender:
- Male
- Female
- Other
- None
- False
- Undefined
- Null
- Nil
- [Object object]
- 🚹 (The gender formerly known as male.)
- November
- 98°
- Yes, please
[ Click here if you are a conservative and only wish to see male/female ]
In all seriousness though, this is what I did for my contact app (it’s a combobox, so you can type whatever you want in there or pick from the dropdown):
Tbh gender setting should be like a color picker for rbg
This does limit the amount of genders to 1,073,741,824 if using 30bit rbg, but I'm willing to accept that compromise until someone lists more
Ruth Bader Ginsburg only made it to 87, I don't think you need to go up to 30 bits for that.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a fucking amateur (I don't know who they are).
Then soon we will need to update the meatcolorspace to support alpha\ transparency channels.
What about a free text field or just don't ask people about their gender?
Sometimes you have to ask for it. E.g. I work in the life insurance business and we need to know the gender for policy calculation.
Ok, but isn't that just to make vague generalizations about someone based on their gender?
They need to know if you're more likely to skijump into volcano or die from pregnancy to maximize profita
That is the whole insurance business. It is nothing but a bet if you look at it by a single policy. E.g. your insurance bets you'll probably die at 70, so when you hit 71 you paid more than you get when you die. Your insurance wins. But when you die at 55 you "win" the bet. But because there isn't just one but thousands of policies those bets aren't bets anymore, they're nothing but statistics. And one part is keeping track and calculating how old people born in year xy, in country ... with the gender zxy are going to be.
Wouldn’t birth sex be more useful in that context than gender?
Nope. I don't know exactly why but it seems that e.g. a trans man is more likely to die in a stupid accident like driving a motorcycle without a helmet at 200km/h and vice versa. It isn't much of a medicine aspect and more of a lifestyle one.
Oh ok. Yeah, that makes sense.
You could have just said "Nope. Trans men are rad"
Why use many word when few do
Best to put them in an autocomplete dropdown. My gender is xerxes 1.18373772918474920102738172636634, not to be confused with xerxes 1.18373772918474920402738172636634