Dear Luis,

On Sun, 2015-12-13 at 12:23 +0000, Luis Falcon wrote:


> Let's not confuse the physical sex with legal or gender. This
> issue has been brought up several times already, and I will change the
> term "sex" for "gender" in the person (party) model.


Whatever you do, please don't change sex to gender. They are very
different concepts and sex is what we care about in health. [1]

On Sun, 2015-12-13 at 08:55 +0000, Cédric Krier wrote:

> The boolean proposal is semantically the same as mine to add a new
> option
> "Unknown" except that my solution doesn't add an extra field which
> should be
> tested all over the code before using the sex field.

And I agree with what Cedric said here. 


--
Marc

[1]
http://www.amamanualofstyle.com/view/10.1093/jama/9780195176339.001.0001/med-9780195176339-div2-350

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