Gender locked race?

[ArcaneCarbuncle]

Gonna add to this, considering the previous comment this one seems to be replying to. Being "feminine" also doesn't necessarily equal being weak or not "fierce." Going off of other fantasy races, the elves in LotR were described in ways we would think of as more feminine, yet they were still badass. It IS possible for a pretty boy to be a badass.

Non-sequitur: I keep saying to others and myself I'm done with these threads. Yet I keep coming back. Fanfest cannot come fast enough.

Edit: I love that doodle!

And female xaela are supposed to be fierce warriors of the steppe, and yet we got tiny waifus. /shrug
There's been a decent discussion on the physique best suited to the males a hundred pages back or so, and i'm not really keen on doing it again.
I'm all for male viera being lean and cut, but I would be pretty disappointed with "bulky".
For critique mode that face is a bit too boyish for my imagining, but I just chalked that up to every race having their young face, and the body is a bit thin, but not too far off from my personal ideal, and it really could just be a fidelity thing, not showing the full details of the physique. But the limb proportions and overall height looks good to me. Fit, lithe, like a gymnast, like a dancer.

To add to these: Just look at female Viera. They're every bit the fierce Warriors the males are (just fighting on different Fronts, so to say), and they are still very slender. Hell, in FFXII, Fran kicked the <kupo> out of multiple armored enemies, and that Woman for all her badassery... bad-ass...ness?, (you know what I mean) sure as hell isn't 'bulky', so why would realism all of a sudden apply to male Viera?
Plus, if we were to talk realistically, 'bulk' isn't solely down to muscle mass, bone structure plays a role too. If male Viera have slender shoulders (as they realistically could have given their 'quirk' of being virtually indistinguishable from the females until puberty and then don't age all that much after) they wouldn't appear classically 'bulky' if they tried. Toned, yes, but not bulky.