Is gender of MC important?

[Cecilia_Rosewood]

You might want to take a look at these topics first:

Is having gender choice important to you?

I’ve had an idea for a world with a few separate stories within it that I am interested in writing and I’ve finally decided to just sit down and start writing them. Here is my dilemma, due to the nature of the world gender is quite important. Writing a different gender would be a GREAT undertaking as a lot of the central ideas I want to include are influenced by the gender of the main character. If I wrote only one story, I suppose I could just flip gender stereotypes but I have several and it w…

How important is sexuality/gender? Can a story be compelling with a gender-neutral protagonist?

Will readers be turned off by a nameless, genderless hero? The popular Choicescript games seem to have some element of sexuality, or at least have an option of selecting a gender. Is this because readers/players want this feature, or is it just because choicescript simply lends itself to that?