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[Thomas Dalton]

2009/5/17 Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck at spamcop.net>:
> MY gender is he/him/his. Plumbing fittings have genders. Electrical
> plugs (male) and sockets (female) have genders. Mechanical parts have
> genders.
>
> If the system wants to know something biological, like whether I am male
> or female, the correct thing to ask would be my SEX. Can we please use
> correct terminology? "Sex" is not a dirty word.

You are, of course, correct, however in this case "gender" could be
considered correct - we are talking about what gender pronouns to use
to refer to the person. We should probably say "specify the gender
they use" rather than "specify their gender" if we want to be pedantic
(which we usually do!).