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

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Humor me then, what would you call it when a player race only has one available sex when it is clear that in regards to in game lore and descriptions, that it has 2?

unisexual playable races

That lol.

There are so many games out there that just because the lore stated that there is only one gender available, everything was ok (Tera Popori, Elin, Baraka. Blade and Soul Yun. Warhammer greenskins). I wouldn't call it gender locked since, as I have stated many times before, there are no playable features that you were prevented from by having one gender only. And the same lore you're using is explaining why such feature doesn't exist. Lord of the rings online got away from making female dwarves just because they used the lore to state that they look like males. FFXIV used the lore also to explain the lack of male Viera. But let's be honest, everyone for male Viera are saying lore is no excuse.

But let's assume something fun. If the only reason for all this outcry and we're considered genderlocked in Viera race was because the lore said there are males (not because they made them and have them already in the game), then if SE was to make up their own lore on Hrothgar (since they can because they're not tied to FFX lore) and said that they are only males, would you consider Hrothgar gender locked?

it allows them to be entitled without sounding like it. it allows them to make what would normally be an unreasonable demand sound more reasonable.

Just look at the news articles echoing the same things to see how bad this have gotten.