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I reject the premise of your question.

Are you arguing that the elasticity of demand for goods and services that consume fossil fuels is zero? Because the empirical literature clearly disagrees.

Hemaphrodites are a sex, not a gender.

I'll also add, that we might want to add species identity to the list of site options. We want to be accommodating to otherkin, people that do not identify as human.

Yes. There are already some mammalian species that no longer have a y chromosome. http://molecularevolutionforum.blogspot.ca/2012/05/rodents-with-no-y-chromosome-and-no-sry.html

Gay is a sexual orientation. Not a culture.

But there are third gender people. And third gender people do not identify as 'members of the continuum'. So your suggestion is super regressive!

Sex is not the same thing as gender. It's 2016! How do people not know this?

So the people that feel that their gender identity doesn't match their sex are mentally ill.... Meanwhile it's perfectly fine to pretend to eat flesh and drink blood in honor of a 2000 year old jewish zombie that is his own father who died for our collective sin due to a talking snake convincing some magic rib lady to eat a magic fruit. And it's also perfectly fine to believe that the moon was split in two and that some prophet 1400 years ago ascended to heaven on a magic flying horse. Somehow, the 2nd category of people seems far more mentally ill to me. I guess that means we should ban religion and put all religious people into mental institutions.

Yeah. stupid people probably earn like 70 cents on the dollar as non-stupid people. Clearly the difference is due to discrimination! *sarcasm* Mods: despite the joking or making light of the issue, please don't close this thread. I would like to see more gender options for this website.

I meant more with respect to social attitudes. For example, currently we have a sexist double standard with respect to genital mutilation without consent, where it is okay to do it to males but not females. Now if you blur such a distinction, now by mutilating the genitals of infants with penises without consent you risk mutilating the genitals of transwomen infants. Thus the practice of 'circumcision' now causes female genital mutilation without consent, which is banned. Or as another example, despite making up nearly half of domestic violence victims, domestic violence shelters are overwhelmingly female only. As a result, male domestic violence victims do not get nearly as much support as female domestic violence victims. Now if you blur the distinction between men and women, then you can't really have men-only or women-only domestic violence shelters, and such sexist double standards in society are harder to enact.

Actually, can we also add an option for pronouns? Asexuality.org for example gives people the option to indicate their preferred pronouns.

The sooner we blur the distinction between male and female, the sooner we reach equality in society.

Kimmy gets it. If Bono has done great charity for women in poverty-stricken countries, then they deserve the award.

WestCoastRunner's continued hateful and bigoted attitudes towards ideas that challenge her traditionalist world view of gender and sex are deeply concerning. It's 2016! Why do attitudes such as this still exist?

Some would argue that sounds like hate speech against non-binary people, by denying their gender. Some would even be triggered by such comments. What is wrong with having more gender options? It doesn't deny your gender being male.

Added a poll. I hope that this website joins the 'right side of history' and increases gender options. At asexuality.org, for example, I use "Gender roles are dumb" to describe my gender, and everyone seems fine with it.

Uh, no. It's possible to be, for example, a transwomen who is sexually attracted to women, or a transman who is sexually attracted to men. It is important to distinguish between sexual attraction and gender expression (as well as gender identity).

I'm surprised that this issue hasn't been brought up before. Currently, there are 4 gender options for this website: Male, female, blank and not telling. I.e. basically only 2. It's 2016! Why are the gendered options so limited? Facebook has 58 genders. New York City recognizes 31 genders. I think that either the number of gender options should be greatly expanded, or the site allows people to type in some text to describe their gender, rather than choose from a limited list of options. Also, some websites distinguish between gender identity, gender expression, phenotypical sex, genetic sex and sexual orientation. So that may be worth looking into.

"Let the federal choose the local mayor? Look at the senetors the prime minister has choosen in the past 30 years and repeat that without laughing." I never said appointed directly by the prime minister. Administrators of municipal issues could be hired in the same way that the federal government hires people to run the civil service, be it environment Canada, our military, statistics Canada, etc. Municipal issues could basically become an extension of the civil service. " I have nothing against the principle of the equalization. But you won't fool me. Equalization itself means nothing. Other federal programs must be considered if you want to know if you recieve or give." True. But despite any ambiguity in the exact values, it is clear that some provinces (BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan) are currently net contributors and some provinces (Quebec, Nova Scotia, PEI, New Brunswick) are net recipients.

Highway 720, yeah that sign is from Montreal. Signs like that should be billingual in places like Ottawa, Gatineau, Montreal, New Brunswick, etc. because you are in general going to have significant number of unilingual individuals (both French and English) driving on roads in these areas. Unilingual signs make sense in Toronto, Quebec city, Calgary, etc. because the populations are relatively unilingual. But not everywhere is like that. Heck, the population of primarily Chinese speakers in parts of Vancouver justifies bilingual English-Chinese signs.

I never said all unilingual signs are a problem, but the refusal to use bilingual signs in some cases probably does result in increase traffic accidents. For me, I can get by fine. But for say a friend from texas who recently travelled to Quebec for vacation... yeah it can be a problem. The Préparez-vous à arrêter sign, I seriously doubt my Texan friend would know what that means. Heck a fair number of English Canadians would not know what that means. A sign telling people to prepare to stop is very important and we have them to try to reduce traffic accidents. If people don't know what signs mean, that probably isn't good for road safety.

" For a very local matter, local people have better chances to take better decisions. However, even if it is often true, it is not always true. " I never said local people should deal with local issues. But it may be better to have the federal government appoint those local people instead of having local elections (which, let's face it, the majority of people don't pay attention to, nor vote in). For example, it may make more sense to appoint people who have an educational background in cost-benefit analysis or municipal issues that makes them more effective at making good decisions " It's not the case today and prior to that." No, it certainly is the case, and has been that way since basically always. You have to take into account contributions by the taxpayers of provinces to federal revenue. Despite Alberta having half the population of Quebec, it contributes about the same to federal government revenue. As a result, there is significant transfer of wealth from Alberta to Quebec. BC has also been historically a net contributor, which the maritime provinces have historically been net recipients. For example, in 2009, Alberta paid $14 billion more in taxes to the government than it received in expenditure, where as Quebec received $16 billion more in expenditure than it contributed in taxes. By comparison, Quebec's equalization payments were $8 billion in that year. http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/07/22/a-closer-look-at-federal-revenues-and-expenditures-by-province/

In all seriousness, this is serious issue. Not just with Canadians coming to visit Quebec, but also for American tourists. If you have people that can't read traffic signs, then you have a higher chance of car accidents. Take Ottawa, it has bilingual traffic signs. Gatineau on the other hand is mostly unilingual. I guess nationalism trumps safety in Quebec.