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Katherine, Emilia, and Jacob, I enjoyed the correspondence re US Census hugely. Your arrow, Kate, betwen the two boxes was wonderful! Good luck to you all. I suspect that there'll be no upshot from your action, though; it will just be counted amongst the 'spoilt data' category and that will be that. Sad but probably true. Personally, as someone who alternates between feeling female and male approximately equally, when I am in female mode (my physical gender is male) I don't want to draw attention to the fact, I just want to get on with it and be accepted by those around me. It's not easy for them, and so I try and make allowances, while still aiming for self expression. (It doesn't always work, but, hell, what does in life?) Before anybody replies to me with "maybe you're being a little relaxed about this", let me counter with the observation that to expect modern day beaurocracies to devote enough time to resolving an item of (to them) spoilt data is... hopeful, at best. Nevertheless, I wish you luck Emilia and Jacob and hope you get your chance to make your point. Love to all, Katherine Terry [but I answer to Peter, when I'm in a good mood :-) ] >From: "Katherine Cummings" <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: "Katherine Cummings" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "Emilia Lombardi" <[log in to unmask]>, "tsmenace" ><[log in to unmask]>, "Trans - Academic" ><[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: U.S. Census >Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:09:15 +1100 > >When confronted with a form containing male and female gender boxes my >usual >response is to draw an arrow from 'M' to 'F'. > >Kate > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%