Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-39665740-20190605213457/@comment-43781716-20190910211902

Couple of things: Yes, you're right that if I take away a woman's breasts and such they aren't male necessarily,  but I'd argue that at least the War Hammer Titan is pretty male-looking. It has square, male breasts and no discernible curve at the waist or buttocks. Pieck is ambiguous, I'll give you that, and Ymir's looks more like a troll, so… an argument can be made for those two. But to me, the War Hammer Titan can be considered a male titan. (I'm talking more physiology than face here, which is why to me, square breasts and no curves = male. Especially because its face is covered, the WHT looks like a male — actually, now that I think about it, it looks like Eren's Attack Titan.)

But that's beside the point.

Let's say Ymir, Pieck and Willy's sister's titans are indeed androgynous, while Eren, Zeke, Galliard and Reiner's are pretty confidently male. But Annie's and Frieda's aren't. I'll concede that my Founding Titan + Royal Blood = gendered titan form is a bit contrived, but my theory about Annie still holds. You're absolutely right; if a female took the power of the Attack Titan, its face would look more "feminine" — it might lose the square jaw of Eren's titan — but what about the body? "Male", right? Which means that its androgynous, right? That's fine until you recall what Eren and his classmates of the 104th learned waaaay back in the first couple of arcs: in-universe, pure titans are always considered "male", in the way that they don't have female parts. Several pure titans, such as Dina Fritz, but also some of the ones Zeke used in the Return to Shiganshina Arc, have slightly feminine faces, yet androgynous bodies. Thus, in-universe, to say that they are "male-looking" titans isn't completely wrong. Technically, they are genderless, since they have no reproductive organs, but for simplicity's sake, they call them male. Going by this definition, the WHT, the Cart Titan and Ymir's Jaw Titan can be classfiied as a "male titan because it doesn't have female parts", which is basically what the characters do anyways.

So what about Annie (We're leaving Frieda out of this, since it's been established through Uri that the Founding Titan can be male or female looking)? She's referred to officially as the Female Titan, and no one is disputing the fact that her titan is unquestionably female. Never mind the face, which (respectfully) you seem to be hung up on, but she has breasts and a waist curvature which most women have. She's not the Founding Titan, so logic dictates that her titan should be androgynous/male — until you realize that her official name is the Female Titan. Like I said, historically, one of the Nine Titans aside from Ymir Fritz is always depicted as a woman, and, this is key, THE OTHERS ARE DEPICTED AS MALE. Yes, it could be artistic license, but I believe the underlying message here is that (other than the Founding Titan), the Nine Titans and all pure titans have "male" or androgynous bodies (no breasts), EXCEPT FOR THE FEMALE TITAN. So what if a man ate Annie? I think that while the titan's face would look a bit weird because the human is a male, but the rule of the Female Titan still holds: it would have breasts and a curvy waist/butt.

TL;DR: In-universe, titans with no discernible male features are considered "male titans". If you disagree, that's fine, but it's undeniable that the Female Titan has clear female body features, something which the other female titan shifters don't have. Because of the historical evidence, its official name and other females not having female titans, the holder of the Female Titan's titan will always have breasts and curves, and will probably have a more effeminate face.

Sorry about the capitals; I'm not trying to be an ass. I'm just trying to emphasize the key points. :)