Since I know there are a lot of the LGBT etc crowd here (forgive me if I'm not up to date on your acronyms) I'm wondering what is civcraft's opinion on the new gender options granted to Australian citizens are. As some of you may know I don't adhere to the notion that there are more than two genders and I believe you are either a bloke or a sheila, your sexual preferences and other strange fantasies do not effect this. I know I have confused others with my use of pronouns in regards to the trans people in Grundeswald such as refusing to call kovio or kaiwren "she" or "her" when they themselves believe to be females but as they were born biologically male I feel that a pandering to their delusions is not healthy. I've told most all trans I've come across to go seek proper medical help to what I perceive as a mental issue but rarely do I ask them about why they feel the need to pretend or even mutilate themselves through surgery and hormones to turn themselves into something else. And I feel with this event that is being described as "a land mark victory for transgendered people" I should begin to ask these questions.

The event in which sparked this thought is the High Court of Australia's decision to allow a person who was born a male, had a sex change operation and now identifies as neither male nor female to be marked down on a document as a gender neutral third option. Some related questions to this are:

• Does your nation or town (both civcraft and real life) allow you to mark yourself as something other than a male or female in legal documents?

• Do you think it matters that people are allowed to choose their gender?

• Have you seen any discrimination caused by such gender standards?

• Would you explain to me what caused to become or declare yourself as something other than your biological sex?

And finally:

• What effect does this have on the civcraft community?