Would it be weird, if I headcanoned some gems as male, despite all of them (except Steven, obviously) being technically genderless and identifying as female in canon? I felt like the absence of male characters (besides the humans) was severely lacking, and it gets confusing to refer to the ones that look or sound more masculine than feminine as their canonical identities each time without saying stuff like "Wait, which one was this again?". I remember reading something that stated that the gems are based on Rebecca Sugar herself, and she made roughly 98% of them feminine-presenting like her own identity preferences, but I'm not sure if this is correct (as a male writer, I'd personally do the opposite with several of them, so it would be relatable). If you see future posts with any gems headcanoned as male being referred to as their female selves instead, it's clarification that I would specifically mention the canon versions when discussing the show in general. I'll post tier lists for these headcanons sometime later. I'm afraid that I'll receive negative criticism or backlash from people in the comments for trying to do this, though. And then it leads to things like this...
1. Would this mess with the gems' lore in the main show? I might need to explain it if it does, and I don't know if the changes to the alien race's history would make sense.
2. Would genderswapping one gem in an otherwise lesbian ship (Ruby x Sapphire, Pearl x Bismuth, Lapis Lazuli x Peridot, etc [based on my knowledge, only the first one is confirmed to be a canon couple]) be considered erasure? I don't want to come across as a homophobe/lesbophobe for making a non-straight couple in my headcanon... well... straight, and this show has a considerably large part of the fanbase for this kind of thing. I'm not sure if a same-sex relationship is any different from a heterosexual relationship, which is mainly because I don't know much about this topic.
(I regret making this post now.)
