> Australia today announced a third option on passports for gender - "Male",
> "Female" and "X" (I kid you not). 

But "X" represents a female chromosome, and "Y" is for male. If only they'd 
gone with "Z" it would have fit right in with this group!   ;-)
 
Dave Salt

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> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:00:55 +1000
> From: ibm-m...@tpg.com.au
> Subject: Re: HYBRID is now In Vogue
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> 
> On Thu, Sep 15th, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Jim Marshall <jim.marsh...@opm.gov> wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone been notified of IBM changing their handles from "zSeries" or
> > "z" something to Hybrid something. 
> 
> Nice timing ...
> Australia today announced a third option on passports for gender - "Male",
> "Female" and "X" (I kid you not). I wonder if your new "Hybrid" friends will
> now feel receptary Jim ?.
> Maybe just the Aussie ones ....   ;-)
> 
> Shane ...
> 
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