Most of my characters in any MMORPG I've played have been male, unless it was a group of us making chick characters together for one reason or another. I've known a bunch of guys that made females and chicks that made males, the guys say they get free stuff or they prefer looking at female virtual ass rather than male and the chicks say they don't want to be harassed. I can understand all those points of view so I don't think there's anything wrong with it. As for a guy pretending to be a chick, I don't see a huge problem with it, since I'm not looking for romance when I'm playing so it doesn't really matter what they really are as long as they aren't letting the mobs aggro me
I notice in the TFP rules though that they have disallowed doing that here, so I guess the upper-ups would disagree with me about it being not a big deal?