Gender locked race?

[cicatriz313]

I can’t help but wonder what type of excuses Yoshi-p would use if genderlock happens though.

I don't think he will need excuses. I feel like from a Japanese developer perspective it's like hey we are giving people who play females something and people who play males something, we're golden. I am sure the backlash wasn't even in their mind until recently when this thread went up and now it's probably way too late to do anything about it.