: Re: How do I keep the gender of my main character purposely ambiguous? I'm a newcomer to this community, and have recently started giving serious thought to my first novel. I'm basically working

This is quite speculative; I've never used it or seen it used. BUT, all the other answers aside, you could try having the main character do things that make the reader lean alternately one way or the other. Have the character do manly things, followed later by feminine things; repeat. Eventually the reader just doesn't know what to think. This MIGHT end up conveying the impression of just being a tomboy, though, since I feel like (to modern sensibilities) there are more things that a girl is allowed to do than a man is. (Like, people would look at a guy way more strangely if they wore a dress than if a gal wore a suit.)

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