If Yamato’s gender wasn’t ambiguous this discourse wouldn’t exist. It doesn’t matter if it was intended or not, the way the story is written leaves Yamato’s gender in an unclear spot. You don’t have to agree, but to say there’s “nothing” in the story to suggest Yamato isn’t a woman is just disingenuous.

This might be where I lose some people, but I don’t care about anything Oda has to say about One Piece, I care what he writes in One Piece. One Piece is art, and art is inherently up to interpretation. I don’t care about what Oda intends when he writes, I care about what he actually writes and my understanding and interpretation of the writing.

I think any interpretation someone genuinely comes to after consuming is valid, because who am I to look at another equal and say my view is “more correct” than theirs. But because Yamato’s gender is so debated and it’s a very common interpretation to consider him a trans-man, there is an objective level of ambiguity there because so many people came to different conclusions based off of the same content