[eksith]

  it is probably simplest to have words that most people use like male and female and something...

The simplest is a text field with: "What prefix would you like us to use?" The End.

There are no assumptions, no assignment of labels, not one bit of imposing your cultural norms on anyone else. The hardest part of getting over biases is acknowledging that you have them.

Learn some sensitivity, please.

[ludicast]

I'm either being trolled or bullied here.

A text field adds time to type out (which can lose customers, alienate handicapped etc.), all to accommodate an exception, rather than a rule.

I don't care if you have a slider, dropdown, circle, whatever, but for usability, a gender option should have poles that require 0 or 1 clicks to get to (though a text-field for further elucidation is okay). Continuing down this path, the further step is saying a shoe-size option insults amputees and lymphedema victims and should be a text-field...

Edit - Another fact is that the person filling out this form might not be the person described by the form (say for a CRM tool) in which case it matters more to KISS.