In a high fantasy/egalitarian society there aren’t a whole lot of differences between men and women and most games treat them exactly the same. The MC should be able to be pure and sweet,brash and impulsive, cautious or a manipulative master mind or a range of personalities that allow the player to define their character ,if gender doesn’t completely change the story. Look at how the Guen wip allows players to create a unique set of MCs that can have their own motives for doing things, but it is only gender locked because it either wouldn’t make sense with a male MC or would require making an entire different story for a male PoV . Guenevere (WIP)
Having a non-gender locked game also avoids Having a lot of females who automatically won’t play a male gender locked game. (Let’s face it. Most games have a defined, male protagonist and images. Many people can just play one of those games, and the thing that really makes CoG unique is being able to create your own character.) People are so different that you can’t sum up an entire gender in one way, unless the society heavily influenced what it means to be male/female like in historical games.