Gender? [answered]

[Arianna]

Being the PHP beginner that I am, I know I messed something up.
I added a new column to the owned_adoptables table, Gender. I had only one pet on the system, and I edited the myadopt action stats so that it showed the gender too.
I manually entered the gender via phpmyadmin, no big deal yet, because I have a problem which I encountered.
It will display the gender, but this seems to totally lock out any new adoptables. xP
How do I get around this? Also, if you know, how can I set it so on adoption it chooses either Female or Male (50/50 chance) and inserts it into the table?
Thanks,
Arianna
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EDIT: I managed to make it so the default is female, and so it inserts that in - however, I'm stuck on how I can insert a random chance which chooses either 'Male' or 'Female' for the gender field.