Quote Originally Posted by YianKutku View Post
I've read the answer to the second question four times and I still don't know what it's trying to say.

Taking it at face value, it seems like Matsuno is saying "they have a different set of norms". Which is both very obvious and completely facile to observe. Two families living as neighbours can have different norms when it comes to gender environments. What is more interesting is what happens when someone doesn't fit into the rigid box, and Matsuno has apparently deliberately decided not to answer that part of the question, hiding behind cultural essentialism.
I'm not sure where the confusion is, but I think he's mostly addressing the "so they just accept it?" bit and taking the second sentence as a remark rather than a question to be answered.

And yeah, they'd just be raised to accept (or at least know) that at some point some of them will turn out to be male and will need to take up their duty as Wood-Warders.

In any case it's not "you have to leave the village now", it's "you'll be apprenticed to the next Warder who visits the village".