People are arguing semantics about Gender Lock.

Gender Lock in the terms being commonly used refers to there only being ONE available gender of a race in an MMO. UNLESS it is otherwise stated specifically in game, races are generally assumed to have a Male and Female variant. This has been the general understanding of the term since about forever. Anyone whos trying to push the "Well they dont exist, therefore there is no gender lock" is trying to argue that if an in-game asset doesnt exist, the state of a race only having one available gender is not a gender lock. This is silly.

The issue is that this tries to redefine how "Locked" is being used. The argument is you cant lock something that doesnt exist (which is a sound argument in that context), but how 'gender lock' is actually commonly being used isnt that the assets exist and the devs just turned them off, but that we the player are locked into one choice when selecting the races that have most likely a bimodal species due to player expectation. From a Devs PoV, nothing is locked. From a players PoV, the races are locked to Male or female. Its the player perspective where the term has grounds, and is commonly used to describe this.

If you didnt know this, thats fine. Now you do. However, trying to push that we shouldnt call it "gender locking" when its common knowledge among MMO players generally is pretty much saying that because you didnt know it, we should change it to meet your standards. That gives you a lot of control of how people talk about a subject. Because the next step in a discussion would be "Well if they dont exist, that means youre not losing out on anything and the devs shouldnt focus on this, but instead focus on my interests." where the initial point is "We dont like it when you lock us players into only one gender and dont think this is good for the game." Framing changes a lot. If you dont understand the terminology, rather than telling people who do to change how they word things, you could ask people to explain it's meaning and why its used.