Talk:Wandering Scholar/@comment-1212909-20160922225044

... Say, is there any actual clarification in the lore -- whether in the Wandering Scholar's writings or outside them -- about the Wandering Scholar's sex? All English translations of the official MGE texts that I've read use male pronouns, but for all we know they're simply being used in the gender-ambiguous sense (typical to English writing when the sex of the subject is unknown/irrelevant); after all, the Japanese language makes it trivially easy to write about a person without ever actually stating their gender, since it only has two gendered pronouns (male kare and female kanojo), both of which are third-person pronouns (a class of pronuons that is somewhat infrequently used in Japanese, with the more common alternative being namedropping the subject directly instead).

So, I ask again: Do we know for sure that the Wandering Scholar is really a man, rather than a woman or maybe even a hermaphrodite?