Re: [Gramps-users] Gender or Sex?

[Peter L. <pet...@te...>]

For some languages,  like Swedish, this is not a problem as we translate both gender and sex with 
one word "kön". Gender in connection with words is translated as "genus".

/Peter

> Today some use "gender" as an attribute denoting (fe)maleness, perhaps
> to distinguish it from "sex", the verb. (That makes the double meaning
> work in "words have gender...")
>
> On 10/12/09, Doug Blank <dou...@gm...> wrote:
> > This was discussed in the past in connection to translating the word
> > "spouse" into languages that have gendered forms for the word:
> >
> > http://www.nabble.com/Gender-translation-td21902634.html
> >
> > However, I don't think we considered "fixing" gramps at that point,
> > even though it was pointed out that "words have gender, but people
> > have sex."
> >
> > In many places in genealogy, we specifically do mean "sex" as we are
> > referring to the role a person plays in the biological relationship to
> > the children. However, in other places, the category could easily be
> > described to refer to a person's gender (eg, the role that they play
> > in society, or even their own family).
> >
> > But, I'm not sure one should use one form over the other "in the
> > interest of precision" unless you pick the term to use based on the
> > details of an individual. In other words, in any given tree, there may
> > be individuals that one could describe their role in the family in
> > terms of either gender or sex, or possibly even both. However, "sex"
> > is probably what we mean most of the time.
> >
> > In any event, if one felt strongly about changing the gramps default
> > term from gender to sex, you could post a Feature Request in the bug
> > tracker [1] to have it changed. Or, you could make it so that your
> > copy of gramps "translated" gender to sex. You'd just need to make a
> > new translation, and translate that single word.
> >
> > -Doug
> >
> > [1] http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/
> >
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