Class Gender

java.lang.Object

org.episteme.core.util.ExtensibleEnum

org.episteme.social.sociology.Gender

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Comparable<ExtensibleEnum>

public final class Gender
extends ExtensibleEnum

Extensible gender categories for social and psychological modeling. Distinguishes social gender from biological sex.

Since:

1.1

Author:

Silvere Martin-Michiellot, Gemini AI (Google DeepMind)

See Also:

• Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final Gender	AGENDER
static final Gender	FEMALE
static final Gender	MALE
static final Gender	NON_BINARY
static final Gender	OTHER
static final EnumRegistry<Gender>	REGISTRY
static final Gender	TRANSGENDER
static final Gender	UNKNOWN

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Gender(String name)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static Gender	fromSex(BiologicalSex sex)	Maps biological sex to social gender.
boolean	isBuiltIn()	Checks if this is a built-in (predefined) value.
BiologicalSex	toSex()	Maps social gender to biological sex.
static Gender	valueOf(String name)

Methods inherited from class ExtensibleEnum

compareTo, description, equals, getDeclaringClass, hashCode, name, ordinal, toString

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Details

REGISTRY

public static final EnumRegistry<Gender> REGISTRY

MALE

public static final Gender MALE

FEMALE

public static final Gender FEMALE

NON_BINARY

public static final Gender NON_BINARY

TRANSGENDER

public static final Gender TRANSGENDER

AGENDER

public static final Gender AGENDER

OTHER

public static final Gender OTHER

UNKNOWN

public static final Gender UNKNOWN

Constructor Details

Gender

public Gender(String name)

Method Details

isBuiltIn

public boolean isBuiltIn()

Description copied from class: ExtensibleEnum

Checks if this is a built-in (predefined) value. Default implementation returns true to mimic standard Enum behavior unless explicitly overridden.

Overrides:

isBuiltIn in class ExtensibleEnum

toSex

public BiologicalSex toSex()

Maps social gender to biological sex.

fromSex

public static Gender fromSex(BiologicalSex sex)

Maps biological sex to social gender.

valueOf

public static Gender valueOf(String name)