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So the APG mentions that Changelings can be any gender. This is a partial retcon where they used to only be of the feminine persuasion, but that's fine... we can just explain away the lack of boy changelings via "mom ate them".
The issue is that the various types of Changelings are called [Foo] May (Callow May, Slag May, Dream May,etc.) But "May" as a noun (not referring to the month) is an archaic term for "Maiden" (as in "Maiden, Mother, and Crone.)
So are the boy Changelings still "Slag May", or whatever, or do we use a different word?
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The official explanation for their being non-female Changelings now is that generally only female Changelings hear The Call, and thus male and other non-female Changelings rarely realize their own nature, and nobody else does either.
That being the case, the in-world terms for different kinds of Changeling being explicitly female makes a lot of sense, and I see no reason to do anything about it on a meta level. In-universe, how a particular Changeling feels would determine whether those terms were applied to them.
I'm surprised that Paizo didn't go with gender-neutral terms.
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Well, the May naming convention was pretty good back in PF1 where Changelings were all gals.
I guess we could say that the names are diagetic, and were coined by hags who do not care about their male children.
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Well, the May naming convention was pretty good back in PF1 where Changelings were all gals.
I guess we could say that the names are diagetic, and were coined by hags who do not care about their male children.
Or by people who didn't realize there were non-female changelings, which is still the historical norm in-setting.