Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4224349-20141106231317/@comment-25563656-20141107062913

Gnx486 wrote: Seeing Opal's and Sugilite's designs, I was not expecting the frankensteinian lumbering grab-bag of nonsense that Alexandrite wound up being XD

Also, I think we can safely put "female" as the gems' genders on their individual pages, since on top of their preferred pronouns, we now know their bodies are "human constructs" that have the same biological functions as human beings. Putting "Sexless" and "non-binary" is just splitting hairs that don't exist.

Because it's a cartoon, I think it's okay to rely on how the characters are coded, look at dialogue, consider voice acting. (Steven and other characters refer to the gems as women.) But really since fusion gems are constructs (i.e. non-human), we could think about not labeling their genders at all.