So you really made a post to argue about the term gender locking which is the agreed upon term in the video game community for decisions to lock races or classes to one gender or the other? You might as well try to argue with a dictionary. Also the gear argument is invalid, since the only gear they actually have to change is the helmets. The bodies for viera and hrothgar use hyur and roe rigging. The way gear works is that midlander, elezan, miqo'te, and au ra all share the same skeletal rigging meaning gear is scaled up or down for them but it uses the same gear. Roes, highlanders and lalafells all have unique skeletons so gear for them is just for them. The slides very carefully stated that the unique thing about each race is the head. This is because viera will use the hyur gear, none of it has to be changed for them, Hrothgar will use the roe gear, none of it will have to be changed, even adding a slouch is already in the game which can be viewed in several emotes. So, they would not be making a new model at all, just a new head, same as they already did for both "new" races. So they literally can slap a boobs on a hrothgar and call it female since that body already exists as the female roe.