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I would like a more solid source, yes. Though I'm not sure what difference it would make either way--if it's that obscure in usage, it still borders on lying to the reader. Like saying "Yes I may have called this person a man, and everyone who read it would be led to assume they were male, but historically that word just meant human so technically they can still be a woman".

Especially considering mothy has been careful not to use gendered pronouns when making reveals like that in the past (or if he did, it was always an in-character narration making the mistake).

However. I'm not sure we need to make a big thing about it before the novel's even out. If it turns out there's some miscommunication between Allen and Nemesis (like there being twins or something), the whole conversation is moot. He's certainly drawing attention to the fact that Sickle was presented as male previously by having Allen remark that he thought he was a man.