playing as the opposite gender

[Beaute]

I switch off. It depends on the design of the character.

 

[Sheep]

Always female, except in R/B/Y/G/S, obviously :P I just feel awkward if I play as a gender I'm not.

 

[RivalGator]

Whichever gender I play with depends strictly on the name I want to give my trainer. Most of the time I play a male, to give a plus toward androgyny.

 

[ben cousins]

I remember i brought crystal from a pawn shop and someone already had a file in whice they chose to be a girl so i just decided to continue with it and it turned out to be the team i'm probably most proud of

 

[LeafeonxxEeveexxEspeon]

Just once, for the sake of wanting to be Ash. Otherwise I always use the girl character.

 

[zidiane]

I pick whichever design I like better. Sometimes It's my gender, sometimes it's not.

Male picks
FireRed (Really liked the female design, but no one can NOT pick Red/Ash.)
Crystal (Female looked attrocious)
HeartGold (No contest)
Emerald (He looks better with green)
Pearl (Barely won out)
Ranger: Guardian

Female Picks
LeafGreen (Ended up buying this game so I could pick the girl)
Ruby (Red suits her much more than green does)
Platinum (Too cute with the boots and the scarf)
White (If the Male was matched up against any other Female, he'd win out. I mean, look at him! He's awesome! But... nothing as cute as her has ever graced the pokemon world.)
Ranger
Ranger: Shadows

 

[FlameChocobo]

Pretty much both genders.

For the Male Characters, I play as...
Brendan (Sapphire Version)
Red (Fire Red Version)
Lucas (Platinum Version)
Ethan (Heart Gold Version)
Touya (Black Version)


As for the Female Characters...
May (Ruby Version and Emerald Version)
Leaf (Leaf Green Version)
Lyra (Soul Silver Version)
Touko (White Version)

 

[PelipperMail]

In R/B/Y/G/S/C/R/S/E/Pt/B/W I chose male.
In FR/LG/D/P I use female. <3 Dawn's summer outfit.

 

[Intelligence]

I have played 7 times as a female and two times as a male. I am a male by the way. The seven times were for White and Black and one of them is for Emerald. The two times as a male was for my first profile on Emerald, it is no more, and my Diamond, which got stolen.

 

[Charlie Kelly]

I tend to play as female, mostly due to character designs. Though, I did pick male is Soul Silver.

 

[blue]

I've found myself doing this more increasingly over the years.. I went as the female protagonist in White first time round then male in Black. If they get remade I'll get both RS Remakes and In Sapphire I'll play as Brendan and in Ruby I'll go May! I think.

 

[-Jake]

I always use a male character on my main version that I'm playing, although if I get both versions of the game then I'll occasionally play as a female on my second one.

 

[BraveVesperia]

It depends on the design for me :)
I chose the girl in Platinum and the boy in Emerald

 

[ScarletCross]

I've always played as a girl on diamond and white but in Pokemon yellow I kind of had no choice like everyone else. I don't see anything wrong with playing as the opposite gender.

 

[The Corrupt Plague]

I'm not going to lie here when I say that I do play as the girl sometimes. It gets kinda old using the same character on every file and it adds a little bit of variety.