this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2024
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
Gender

⚫ Female
⚫ Male
🔘 Gliese 436 b

But 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
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

At that point why have it in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m a fan of “male” “female” “‘);DROP TABLE gender;—“ myself

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

What have things come to that we are now gendering poor little Bobby Tables?