Why is there a neutral gender?

[clouded]

The question is why does the game have you choose a gender at all. It is a pointless extra keypress during character creation, if you want to imagine yourself as one or the other, then you can do so without the game asking you about it.

[Derakon]

Why shouldn't there be a neutral gender? Gender identity is a very thorny issue and my general attitude here is "people should be allowed to call themselves whatever they like". Given the sheer variety of different identities (e.g. "male-to-female pre-op trans"), though, "neutral" serves as a convenient "decline to specify".

[T-Mick]

Pretty sure that only vanilla has it, and it doesn't mean anything. What was the rationale here?