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binary? really?

There are other answers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender

Edit: Thanks for adding other.

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He's not asking about gender, he's asking about sex. I don't know why he's getting so much flack for it.

"sex" is complicated too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

Not like most people even check which chromosomes people have.

Humans have more than just two sex categories http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/marriage.html

There do exist people whose biological sex doesn't fall neatly into male or female.

Are they? "Male" and "Female" would usually refer to gender in this context.

There is no such thing as gender. It's something liberals made up.

(trying to resist the troll, but..)

Just because you don't feel something, doesn't mean you can dismiss the mindset of others. Many people feel and demonstrate that gender is separate from sex and can be very much non-binary. It surely exists, whether you like it or not.

So if I feel like something is true, it magically becomes true? Cool. I sure do feel like a millionaire.

poof

Whoa, my bank account balance... it's true!

Thanks, stranger. Want some of my new money?

You are not using the same definition of "gender" as me, and so your reply doesn't make sense. Sex (what you are born with), and gender (what you perform as), are two different things. No, you can't change what you are born with, but you can change what you perform as. Whether you think this is right or not doesn't come into it – it simply is. A great deal of people perform outside of the gender they were brought up as. If you don't like that, that's one thing. But it does happen. And why not let those people be happy and comfortable?

I'm still of the opinion that "gender" should refer to the grammatical concept alone, and this new usage should get its own word. It irks me even more when people use it as a synonym for "sex".

But I'm pretty lonely in that opinion.

Do robots qualify as "other"?

They presumably could. I'd say a car construction robot is ungendered but, as a fictional example, Bender from Futurama is male gendered. Ungendered would be "other" I would say.

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