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

[Alucard135]

Yeap. We can't play them, they're locked.

I'd love to be able to play as a qiqirn. I think they're so cute.

So that means the outrage for male Viera and all the labels thrown at the dev team was hypocritical, since we were locked from all these stuff and no one said anything (some of it had one gender too like Lupin, Ananta etc). Did people suddenly realize they were locked from stuff now? I didn't mention female Hrothgar, because if they said in the lore they don't exist, then by your logic we're not locked from them and should never ask for them in that case.