Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-38502514-20190216075013/@comment-34115-20190216151518

Even if we switch the infobox to use sex instead of gender, "Various" is still correct here. Or if not that then "Not applicable".

If we are talking about biological sex in any form then Orochimaru still has taken on the various biological sexes. Orochimaru is not a male snake controlling the bodies he inhabits. Unless our articles need correcting, when Orochimaru switches bodies the snake form and previous body dies – not enters the new body, dies – and the new body becomes his own. Meaning that biologically Orochimaru is whatever sex his current body is at various parts of the series, which are of various sexes.

And use of ASAB is very problematic both real world and on-wiki wise. Real world there are a not insignificant number of cases where this is incorrectly assigned. And on-wiki it is not even true that we put pre-change data in the infobox and note changes in the article. Characters like Jiraiya are marked as deceased when they are alive at the start of the series and their status later changes. And we list all affiliations a character has had over the story, not just the initial or current affiliation. Using "Various" to note that a character's own physical body has been one of various biological sexes over the course of the series is no different.