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Trick Question...

2005-02-19T05:17:48Z

Tonight I was doing my wife a favor: renewing her Virginia nursing license via their website. They asked for lots of stuff (it's a new system that needs its databse populated)...date degree was awarded, special certifications, etc., etc.

One dropdown menu was for "Sex." Fair enough...in the hospitals I've been in lately, it's seems almost a 50/50 split. The choices kinda threw me, though.

Male
Female
Other

"Other"?

"OTHER"?

"yes" or "no" or even "occasionally" I can see.

But. Other?

*sigh*

Comment from Justthisguy on 2005-02-22

2005-02-23T04:12:37Z

Umm, sir, I beg to differ, and say "not exactly", on the part before the hyphen. I spoke of sex as a quality, something which humans and other bisexual creatures have. ( I don't mean ambisexual!) I go with the old dictionaries. Sex is not a deed, but an identity. Why do so many people say "sex" when they mean "congress"?

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-21

2005-02-21T19:02:04Z

No, JTG, sex isn't - but you...

Comment from Justthisguy on 2005-02-20

2005-02-21T05:01:13Z

Well, since we're on the subject, may I help to spread the Internet rumor that Jamie Lee Curtis is actually XY? Ya know, Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, formerly known as Testicular Feminization? Hey, I think she's hot, too! Sex is weird.

Comment from R.L. Hunter on 2005-02-19

2005-02-20T05:50:26Z

Is this like the woman who, when she came to the line that said "Single-Married-Divorced", wrote All the above?

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-19

2005-02-20T02:44:10Z

Oh, I don't know... I remember during my VA physical I got a prostate exam that I would have had to pay extra for in some place like Thailand...

Comment from MyssiAnn on 2005-02-19

2005-02-20T01:52:59Z

Ummm...can I have a nurse that knows enough about anatomy not to answer "other" to that question the next time I get sick? I know it's not PC, but I wouldn't want them to try to do a prostate exam on me...

Comment from triticale on 2005-02-19

2005-02-20T00:37:14Z

Kid walks up to his father and asks "Daddy. what's sex?" So Daddy gives him the whole big lecture he'd been dreading but knew would be needed. Kid asks "How am I supposed to fit all that in this space on this form?"

Comment from Justthisguy on 2005-02-19

2005-02-19T23:21:44Z

Essex? Wessex? Sussex? Middlesex? (I believe the latter is the actual name of a county in Massachusetts.)

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-19

2005-02-19T20:09:14Z

Well, BC, at least the Commentariat at Castle Argghhh! seems to be a little rabidly hetero...

Comment from BC on 2005-02-19

2005-02-19T18:17:59Z

As a gay friend of an ex once said, "It doubles my chance of a date on Saturday night". Well, maybe not in this community.

Comment from Barb on 2005-02-19

2005-02-19T17:54:31Z

On the XY vs XX thing - I think there are also cases of individuals with XXY. Figure THAT one out!!!

Comment from Boquisucio on 2005-02-19

2005-02-19T17:48:16Z

Thanx joekujo, That's what happens when I get too close to my soft side. I'll hafta go out, chop some wood, 'n get me fixed.

Comment from joekujo on 2005-02-19

2005-02-19T17:20:59Z

Boquisucio:

Then again, what would I know. I suffer from lacking half a chromosome less than the other 50% of the general population.

Lacking... half a chromosome... less than... Keep It Simple...

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-02-19

2005-02-19T16:11:47Z

We need to have Beth come over and post about sexism in the IT world. What the heck, Dusty's gone and gotten us all touchy-feely in here! Thank heaven's the trolls have stayed away though. These threads would have gotten ugly quickly. Kind of like that increasingly silly thread at Cassandra's, where her loyal regulars keep feeding her troll on the subject of Brit Hume.

Comment from Boquisucio on 2005-02-19

2005-02-19T15:55:45Z

Oldloadr, I gently disagree with the XX/XY definition of gender. There are rare mutations by which fully functional females (in the physical/emotional/social sense), have XY Chromosomes. I'd be very Un-PC of us to define gender that way, wouldn't it be? Then again, what would I know. I suffer from lacking half a chromosome less than the other 50% of the general population.

Comment from GEBIV on 2005-02-19

2005-02-19T15:54:19Z

Gee, you'd think that a nurse would be able to figure that one out by now. "Hmmm. Sex?" Pulls out waistband and looks down. "OK, check!"

Comment from Oldloadr on 2005-02-19

2005-02-19T15:44:33Z

You fill out your wife's nursing renewal too? I thought I was the only one. Haven't seen "other" on the form in SC, but then, we are a much "redder" state, if you catch my drift. Anyway, I seem to remember a discusion in the Olympic community years ago about going only by chromosomes: XX=female, XY=male; just a thought.

Comment from Oldloadr on 2005-02-19

2005-02-19T15:44:14Z

Comment from cowboy blob on 2005-02-19

2005-02-19T14:32:32Z

Let's not forget hermaphrodites!

Comment from Cricket on 2005-02-19

2005-02-19T14:16:15Z

I am so confused...

Comment from spr rdr on 2005-02-19

2005-02-19T13:38:03Z

When encountering that question, I always lie. Scares the hell out of them.

Comment from Boquisucio on 2005-02-19

2005-02-19T13:36:26Z

Ah, the convoluted PC world we live in these days. You wouldn't want to prickle the sensibilities of the transgendered community amongst us, would you? What would Brandon, who is in the process of becoming Brenda, feel like if he/she/it feels left out? Just try walking a mile on he/she/its loafers/pumps/retread michelins, and see what it feels like. On second thought, this is way to far difficult to contemplate prior to my first cup of coffee. GAWD - THE HORROR

Comment from AFSister on 2005-02-19

2005-02-19T13:08:02Z

What ever happened to the "YES, PLEASE" answer to that question? That was always the answer in college, anyway. "Other" should be changed to "Shim", or "In Transition" or may "Under Re-construction", don't you think? Makes sense to me...