Agreed, Greg. In America we have a lot of mixed gender names, ungendered names and reverse gender nick-names. Many masculine French names, for example, are female here. I know men ...
Super risky, IMHO. While people are used to seeing their name spelled wrong, you'll get people very angry when you assign the wrong gender. Lived and learned on that one. And nowad...
Good to see I'm not the only here who works in Healthcare IT. I've created dozen of these alert emails for everything from Contact Us to employee referral programs, etc.