[billorites]

"Later my boss explained I should not be using that term because I could offend some of my co-workers. "

Well talk about offensive.
Here's a one male to two female adapter.

Kinda gets the imagination going...

[listenhillary]

How about male and female plugs?

[6SJ7]

Here's a one male to two female adapter.

How about the even more risque 'gender changers'?!

[PapaBear3625]

Here's a one male to two female adapter.

Back in my high school's audio/visual unit, we referred to female/female and male/male adapters as homo or lesbian connectors. But that was many years ago. I can only imagine what would have happened to us today