Thanks for bringing this up Sky and thanks to everyone else for a very useful discussion on this important issue. I have to admit that in the past, I have experimented with several variations on the gender question including providing the “other” and/or the “prefer not to say” options. I have also used a text field which resulted in some rather rowdy data being entered in that field – which while fun to read through, made us doubt the seriousness of responses on the rest of the survey. We took a rather more traditional/conservative approach this time, but I do like the suggestion about non-binary male/female with prefer not to say. Will certainly give this more thought for our next survey. Thanks, Umar Ruhi umar.ruhi@uottawa.ca University of Ottawa