Family Historian User Group

Is it possible to record a person's gender (multi-valued and with a date) rather than their simple birth-sex?

The reason I ask is that I have a relative that was born with a female body and characteristics but has long maintained that he is a male. Moreover he has now transitioned to being a male.

Therefore on-screen and in reports I wish to show birth sex and chosen gender - this has implications for his pronoun too. He chooses to be called 'he' but some of his friends choose to be called 'they' - this is because gender is not a binary (yes/no, black/white, m/f) state - it is a continuum with several obvious points along the way: Male, Neither, Both, Fluid, Female etc. I would like to be able to record such facts along with their dates and notes.

It may be that what I am asking for is not possible in FH - I have not seen any change notices saying Transgender is supported in any V5 or V6 literature.

My approach is documented here: http://genealogy.stackexchange.com/a/158/104

The problem of whether to use he/she/etc only applies to sentences in Narrative reports.

Although it is convenient for the Sentence Templates to automatically create the pronouns from the Sex field, it is not mandatory.

You can manually selectively edit the Sentence box for each Fact to use specifically he or she and use a different choice before and after a gender transition. Each edit applies very specifically to just the edited Fact, and has no impact on any other Facts for that Individual or any other Individual.

However with FH V6, its Sentence Templates are for more powerful and support Data Refs and Functions. So it might be possible to have conditional Functions dependant on Individuals and Dates that automatically use the correct pronoun for selected Individuals according to the date of the Fact.

As has been said, the Sex field does not have to match the Birth Gender, but there should be suitbale Notes to explain why.