I'm not a fan of gender locked races. They're usually very tacky and blatantly catered to outright fan-service. Even if the race isn't gender locked it's pretty clear that male Viera will effectively be overlooked. There's only a handful of male Miq'ote represented by NPC's and male Viera are described as even rarer.

I don't have an issue with outright fan service when it's done across the board. Yet so far there's no sign that that'll be the case.

It's particularly odd when one considers that a lot of people asking for Viera did so because they wanted to play male Viera.