To:  Standardized Form Companies and other Organizations who use forms

http://www.petitiononline.com/Gender09/

Have you ever filled out a survey, application, or form that has given you gender options besides just "Male" or "Female"? If you have ever seen "Transgender", "Intersex", or simply "Other" as a gender option on any document, surely this caught your attention.

We are a group of University of Maryland students taking a course on Communication and Gender, and we are creating a petition because we believe that not including other gender options on surveys, applications, and other types of documents is a form of inequality and intolerance towards those who do not identify with either male or female as their gender. Transgender, intersex, and transsexual people are discriminated against and are denied the simple acknowledgement that other human beings are given automatically when they are not given this simple option.