Thread:Koishi-Komeiji/@comment-37720251-20181227193130/@comment-37720251-20181228155336

That really is an irrelevant comment, but it's wrong on all counts anyways. Astolfo is an English Duke who serves under Charlemagne and France. They choose to present feminine in Trifas when they don casual clothes as well, and again in lots of CEs and promotional artwork. That's a totally inaccurate summary of Canto 28 of Orlando Furioso, and also unrelated to the subject at hand. Astolfo's writers have stated they the character concept was originally rather hollow, but over the course of writing took on much more depth, to the point of Higashide saying he doesn't know what Astolfo's gender is. ( https://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Rider_of_Black#cite_note-Apocrypha_material-6 ) The only material books and sources that list their gender as "male" are the earliest ones, with all more recent ones up to the FGO materials saying it is unknown or withheld, in line with this evolving characterization. This same source says they dress the way they do because they want to, and presumably the same applies to their gender. It's also very much worth noting that Astolfo has been termed Otokonoko in Type-Moon material, a term which includes "crossdressers" and trans women, though it's somewhat outdated and there's been a cultural shift in Japan away from identifying as that and towards X-gender or MtX, a type of trans identity and one that Astolfo's characterization heavily aligns with. Even the term 'trap', which originates from western forums, has been used to decribe trans people since its inception. It's also defined as a transphobic slur by GLAAD, so really not something appropriate to throw around. ( https://www.glaad.org/reference/transgender under Defamatory Language) That especially doesn't seem good when the argument here is "This person can't be queer, they must simply be insane."

The other servants with the Genderless trait, d'Eon and Enkidu, correctly use neutral pronouns in their profiles on this wiki. Astolfo's Bond Profile uses neutral pronouns, which are the same the in-game profile uses. It's highly inappropriate not to extend that to their full page.