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They don't as in Gender: male. But when talking about Orochimaru, they use the pronouns he and him. Example from pg 72 in 4th Databook: "Orochimaru was doing cellular research on various clans. A portion of it was being preserved in his hideout."

Databook translations cannot be used as references for pronouns. Gendered language in Japanese is different than in English, many Japanese pronouns that are gendered-only in English are gender-neutral in Japanese. So regularly in translations gender neutral text gets substituted with gendered pronouns when translated to English. Which gender the pronouns should use are an assumption made by the translator, not a fact that can be cited.

The original Japanese text needs to be referenced to check for gendered language.

Databook text is also not a very good citation because any spot they are stuck using gendered language would gravitate towards A) a "current" gender rather than one that applies to the whole series, and B) a "gender" since this is prose not a stat/factoid, when we've updated the infobox to reflex sex not gender. What I believe Elveonora was hoping for was an explicit sex/gender stat like the height/weight stats that the databooks have for characters.