If the system wants to know my sex, I can either say yes or no, if it wants to know my gender I can say male or female ;-)
At 12:33 AM 5/18/2009, you wrote:
This system does /not/ want to know my sex. If you're asking a living creature whether it is male or female, you are asking it's sex, not its gender. Living creatures do not come in genders. They come in sexes.
tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Steve VanSlyck wrote: The system has no interest in biology. The system wants to know your gender, so that it can use the correct grammatical gender in pronouns referring to you. I thought I made this pretty clear in the announcement.
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