Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-38502514-20190216075013/@comment-3279282-20190216142732

It's not our job to cater to fans feelings. We document what the manga provides us. So it doesn't really matter if someone is "offended" by what we put in the wiki. If anyone takes personal offense that Orochimaru is depicted as a genderless snake abomination, then that's their decision and not our problem. Especially not in times like these, where getting offended has become more of a weapon to force something or someone to change.

That said, everyone here has used the word "gender" wrong. This includes the wiki's infobox. What it should say is "sex". As you probably know, "gender" has nothing to do with the biological sex, but in the infobox, we refer to the latter: their assigned sex at birth. At least from what I'm aware of, since nobody in the series has ever stated their gender is different from their ASAB. So the change that should actually be made is change the word "gender" to "sex" in the infobox. And for Orochimaru, it should say "male".

To preface this, it is not done to "silence a minority" or whatever. As Elveonora stated, we document the entire series, not just a specific change. That's why Kakashi isn't labeled "former Sharingan user" and Naruto isn't labeled both "former" and "currently" Jinchuriki. Information from the infobox that changed during the course of the series should be noted in the article itself (such as Kakashi losing his Sharingan). The same should be (and is, I think) done to Orochimaru and his sex changes. The word "gender" shouldn't be used at all in this context, since he simply swaps bodies. We don't know if his gender identity changes with the body.