https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33343

--- Comment #1 from Brion Vibber <[email protected]> 2011-12-23 17:37:32 UTC 
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This is for grammatical genders, which depends on the language, and is for
choosing appropriate grammatical forms: pronouns (as in English), adjective and
noun agreement (as in Romance and Germanic languages), verb agreement (as in
Semitic languages), etc.

For English this gives a trinary system, currently labeled as 'male' (usually
goes with "he"/"him"/"his"), 'female' (usually goes with "she/her/her"), and
'undisclosed' (probably tends to "they/them/their" though I haven't checked
lately). These won't come up all that often for English, relatively.

In other languages, there may be different choices, and the actual results of
choosing a gender will be more far-reaching (eg appropriate grammatical forms
for the 'User:' namespace).

I suspect better labeling would be appropriate, but I'm not sure what
additional options would actually accomplish in English specifically.

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