Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-38502514-20190216075013/@comment-3568954-20190218020552

Serendipity18 wrote: "Various" is definitely more correct than male, I think the change is very accurate. And yes, very well said, even if it was sex, there would be no difference there. Orochimaru still changes biological sex whenever a body is swapped to, and even so, has stated that such biology is no longer a "thing". So whether it's been placed as "gender" or "sex" is not relevant.

And while it is not a wikia's job to avoid trampling people's feelings, I see no reason to still be kind and tread around the obvious hotspots. There is no reason to not choose a more diplomatic phrase.

Thanks so much for the edit, I'm really pleased to see it. thats not actually true. on the contrary when he swaps bodies the only thing left over is a small outer shell of skin. the rest of the actual body is absorbed and incorporated into him via his own SPACE TIME. we see that all of the souls of the hosts along with their genetic make up is houses in that particular SPACE TIME instead of discarding his former self he is simply adding to his genetic make up when ever he takes a new host. moreover when sasuke revived him. he was revived with a brand new original body that was made up of all the genetic structures he had taken up to that point. since he was revived via some type of revival jutsu it can be assumed that when he came out of Anko he was in his original albeit modified body.. than when he took a zetsu he took a body that isn't even human.

we also have no idea if he has even taken a new host with all the cloning he has done he may have simply extended his own life span

Elveonora i agree with everything you said. not to mention if you google the etymology of the word gender. the root of the word refers to what you are born as