To think that 'Female' shouldn't be the 4th option in a list of 5 when being asked about gender?

Sometimes if there's a box I write "I don't believe in gender identity but my sex is female." DH does the same (except obviously he writes male). Probably makes absolutely no difference, but makes me feel better.

Female would come before male, then!

I'm just surprised they put one option below us.
I didn't think that was possible.

I volunteer for a charity, it's mainly women who volunteer. They sent a big survey out last year and it was similar. Almost all other questions had alphabetical answers but not the 'gender' one, with female/woman at the bottom.

I emailed them and pointed it out, got nothing back. It really makes me cross for many reasons, they are a charity and can waste money on this stuff! I now won't fill in any surveys from them.

Or told that it would only make middle class women of a certain age kick off.

Did they offer ‘do not believe in gender ideology’ as an option?

You’ve hit the nail on the head.

Even the fact that Male is almost always the first option despite it not coming first alphabetically, and there being fewer men than women in the pop, always pisses me off.

I'm working on something at the moment where the target pop is 95% women. Guess which is listed first in the questionnaire!

I had this argument with a male colleague many years ago when there were just two options.
He told me very aggressively to wind my neck in as it was alphabetical order.
I took great satisfaction in telling him to check his alphabet.
After this for a while the office website did have it in alphabetic order (which I put in). I am sure they reverted it after I left though.

Aerogender ... Amelia Earhart?

Not if male was first…

Well OP says this: 'Female' option was 4th down the list of 5 options. Surely it should state male & female as the first two, and then the non-binary / third gender, Prefer to self describe, Prefer not to answer options?

So my guess is:

1. Male
2. Non-binary / third gender
3. Prefer to self describe
4. Female
5. Prefer not to answer

I also want to know this.

1. Male
2. ?
3. ?
4. Female
5. ?

What on earth were 2 and 3?

Honestly, I think I would be sending them feedback and probably pushing the point that Female people probably have quite a lot of power when it comes to making decisions over where to buy food from.

^Thanks to a previous poster for this gem of an article - If I go back to check who it was, I'll probably loose this post, that often happens😠

Was it you, Ereshkigalangcleg? ^

It was 😂 there are more comprehensive ones but that was the best I could do this morning

Aromagender perhaps?

"Aromagender is a xenogender that is strictly related to scents, smells and odor. This can be related to the smell of flowers, perfume, and much more." '

😂

My brain just exploded

“3 Aerogender: Also called evaisgender, this gender identity changes according to one’s surroundings
and so on and so on...”

presumably that’s for those who identify as bubbly.

Dominos eh?

Perhaps they use the information to predict who might order which topping.

Which gender is likely to order pineapple on their pizza?

What were the other options?

Totally agree.
F for female and first.
If they do it based on the number of people who answer surveys, we should still be first.

Except perhaps for surveys on urinals!

Pathetic effort! you're not even trying! Look what you're leaving out!😄

https://www.medicinenet.com/whatareethe722other_genders/article.htm
1 Abimegender: Associated with being profound, deep, and infinite. The term abimegender may be used alone or in combination with other genders.
2 Adamas gender: A gender that is indefinable or indomitable. People identifying with this gender refuse to be categorized in any particular gender identity.
3 Aerogender: Also called evaisgender, this gender identity changes according to one’s surroundings
and so on and so on...

It has to be a piss-take.. hasn't it?😨

Thanks to a previous poster for this gem of an article - If I go back to check who it was, I'll probably loose this post, that often happens😠

Was it you, Ereshkigalangcleg?

Oh god I hope you didn't apply? I can't be dealing with my work right now it's all ridiculous. We changed our demographic survey to represent sex better but now there's been a round of interviews done with young people and surprise surprise there was a gender binary person. Although they were male. They worked in a children and care setting and he was male 50% of the time but gender non etc rest of the time. We interviewed a lot of people, from both sexes. Of course the gender non one was chosen to be the one to showcase in the draft report. Even though what he was saying was essentially same as all the others. Bah.

Edited to remove some identifying stuff just on off chance my work reads FWR!

I'm trying to think of 3 genders that appear alphabetically before F. So far I've got:

Agender?
Bigender?
??

Catgender? Dullgender? Elfgender?

It annoys me not nearly as much as being asked my gender. I don't have a gender I have a sex.