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Lauda isn't a female. People just used to misgender him because I'm assuming they thought his username was a female one (maybe it people think it's close Laura or something) and he just played into that but I don't believe he's ever claimed to be female.

“Lauda” is an actual name.  Although it seems to be a girl’s given name (five seconds of searching, people!) with an obvious Latin derivation (duh!), I have also seen it alleged to be masculine^{[citation/explanation needed]}.  It is also a surname.

But that does not mean much.  “Loyce” is a girl’s name, but I never assumed that LoyceV was female; it contradicts his behaviour.

I categorized Lauda as “probably female” because in real life, I have known highly intelligent, very willful women who closely matched her in personality and behaviour.  I don’t go in for mechanistic application of dumb stereotypes.  She is a type.  And that is all of the (admittedly unreliable, speculative non-)information that I have to go on, because...


No, Lauda has never claimed to be female.  When I have asked her in private, she refused to answer either way—due to privacy, for it is one binary bit of personally identifying information (damn it, this forum needs an undelete button!^* Loyce’s archive) to partition her anonymity set.  That is not my guess:  It is what she told me.  She was always deadly serious about privacy and anonymity.

There was a post of her where she said something like "You can call me Lauda or Laura or Laudie or Laurie", but I cant find it and I won't stay a month for searching between her 26431 posts lol. If anyone find this quote, feel free to post it here. From this quote, it would seem that s/he is a female, although she doesn't say practically that s/he is a female. Just offered some names that people can use for addressing the account Lauda.

I was able only to find the topic Lauda & Loyce please confirm your gender... and all s/he said on this matter was

I think this is a first, but please call me Laudie or Laura or Laurie if you're already being so cute to quickie. That is only fair.