Ruby on Rails

On 2 Aug 2011, at 08:32, Michael Pavling <pavling@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1 August 2011 22:20, OES <lee.lesmith@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On the Profile I would like to store basic data ie Gender
>
> Sex. Gender is a term about language being masculine/feminine/neutral.
> Sex is male/female.

Except that you're not really interested in finding out whether the user has dangly bits or not (their physical sex); you're interested in finding out their social gender identity is, and 'gender' has been an accepted term for that concept for decades now.

On gender and forms:

http://meloukhia.net/2009/12/beyond_the_binary_forms.html

Chris

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