Gender locked race?

[Enla]

Yeah, we got that intel already earlier in the thread. It's a big non-answer. There's professional journalists that took that as straight confirmation that we are getting a male Viera.
They could just give us female locked Viera, and we would not have been lied to.
They could give us male Viera as well, and we would have not been lied to.
They could give us a male locked race in addition to female locked Viera, and we would be in shady territory. They have said "The Viera will most likely be the last race we add to FFXIV." Of course, this isn't an absolute.

It's been over a year but wasn't there a similar 'non-answer' during the lead up to Stormblood's fanfests? I seem to remember something being left ambiguous that pissed people off majorly but for the life of me I can't remember what it was.