You can't "lock" something that doesn't exist.

[Lacan]

If that meaning is indeed a commonly accepted meaning for the word gender-lock, I should be able to look it up on google and see that meaning. But all search results point to using it for describing a class locked to one gender only in other MMOs. If you add the word "race" to your search, you will get FFXIV forum posts and articles regarding male Viera and Hrothgar.

If people used it back during 1.0 without anyone taking issue with it, I don't see why it is a problem all of a sudden. I mean it literally makes sense if you think about it. Something is genderlocked when it is limited to a specific gender, just like when a class is limited to just one gender. How is a race any different than a class in this sense?

If you want to play Hrothgar you are locked into playing as a male. Same in concept as having to be a certain gender in order to play a certain class/job.

This notion that "genderlocked" implies that the content is already in the game and that players are just waiting for it to be unlocked is something you came up with on your own. No where else has that been stated. You're creating your own things to take issue with.

So let's continue to misuse a term just because we've always misused it. Sure, okay.

You're expecting everyone else to change their lexicon because you think a word choice is poor? Doesn't that seem unreasonable/pointless to you?